Son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melie, king of the Bebrycians who forced strangers to box and was slain by Polydeuces when the Argonauts landed.1
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Apollonius tells how Amycus challenged all comers to box; Polydeuces, stung by the insult, stripped and killed the king. The Mariandyni, long at war with the Bebrycians, welcomed Polydeuces as a god for the deed.2
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