Galaxy/The codex of Amphion

In Greek mythology, Amphion (Ancient Greek Ἀμφίων) son of Iasus is the Minyan king who once ruled mightily in Orchomenus and fathered Chloris, youngest of his daughters — the queen Homer's Odysseus sees as Neleus' wife in the underworld. Distinct from Amphion the Theban wall-builder, twin of Zethus, and from the Argonaut Amphion of Pellene.

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I.King of Minyan Orchomenus

In Odyssey 11.281–286 Odysseus names Chloris, whom Neleus wedded for her beauty after countless bridal gifts: she was youngest daughter of Amphion son of Iasus, who once ruled mightily in Orchomenus of the Minyae. By Neleus she bore Nestor, Chromius, Periclymenus, and Pero. Apollodorus follows the same Chloris–Neleus marriage; some scholia name Persephone daughter of Minyas as Amphion's wife and add Phylomache (wife of Pelias) among his daughters.

Diodorus and Hyginus sometimes make Chloris a surviving Niobid of the Theban Amphion — a conflation Homer and Apollodorus avoid. Pausanias remembers Amphion in the Orchomenian landscape of Minyas' treasury. This atlas entry is the Minyan king alone.

II.Homonym care

The atlas id amphion-orchomenus is Iasus' Orchomenian king alone. Distinct from amphion (Zeus' Theban lyre-builder, husband of Niobe) and from amphion-pella (Argonaut from Pellene).

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameAmphiōn (Ἀμφίων)
Typemortal
Domainsking of Orchomenus · father of Chloris · the Minyan royal house
SymbolsMinyan Orchomenus · Father of Chloris · Neleid marriage bridge
Cult centersOrchomenus (Minyan)
EtymologyAncient Greek Ἀμφίων; several unrelated mythological men share the name.
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