Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Amyclas.
The gallery
The Death of Hyacinthos
Jean Broc, 1801
Broc's Apollo and the dying Hyacinth — Amyclas' most famous son, the Laconian prince whose death makes the flower and whose father founded Amyclae.
Apollo and Hyacinth
Domenichino, c. 1603–1604
Domenichino's Farnese fresco: Apollo with Hyacinth — Amyclas' line as the Spartan house behind the god's beloved youth.
The Death of Hyacinth
Giambattista Tiepolo, 1752–1753
Tiepolo's Thyssen canvas: Hyacinth fallen — the Amyclid prince as Venetian colour, Amyclas' dynasty remembered through the son's death.
In play
Amyclas of Sparta
King of Laconia, son of Lacedaemon — eponym of Amyclae and father of Hyacinthus. Not every minor Amyclas of the catalogues.
Hyacinth
Amyclas' son beloved of Apollo — the youth whose blood becomes the hyacinth flower.
Amyclae
The Laconian town named for Amyclas — seat of the throne and of Apollo Hyacinthius' cult.
Lacedaemon (mythology)
Amyclas' father — the eponym who gives Laconia its other name before the Amyclid kings.