A king of Laconia, son of Lacedaemon, who fathered Hyacinthus, the youth beloved of Apollo.1
Amyclas was the son of Lacedaemon and Sparta, daughter of Eurotas; his sister Eurydice was given in marriage to Acrisius. By Diomede, daughter of Lapithus, he had sons Cynortes and Hyacinthus. This Hyacinthus, they say, was beloved of Apollo and killed by the god unwillingly with the cast of a quoit.2
Wishing to leave a memorial behind him, Amyclas built a town in Laconia. Hyacinthus, the youngest and most beautiful of his sons, died before his father, and his tomb lay in Amyclae beneath the image of Apollo. On Amyclas' death the kingship passed to Argalus, the eldest of his sons, and after him to Cynortas, whose own son was Oebalus.3
Not all sources make Hyacinthus a son of Amyclas. Hyginus, listing the youths the gods loved, names the beloved Hyacinthus a son of Oebalus instead.4
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