Amphictyon

Amphictyon (pronounced: /æmˈfɪkti.ɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφικτυών), in Greek mythology, was the second son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, although there was also a tradition that he was autochthonous (born from the earth); he is also said to be a son of Hellen son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.Smith, citing Dionysius of Halicarnassus Amphictyon was king of Thermopylae and married a daughter of Cranaus of Athens.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 2. 6 According to some accounts this daughter was named Atthis, although this conflicts with other accounts which relate that she died young as an unmarried virgin.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 14. 5 Amphictyon eventually deposed Cranaus, proclaiming himself king of Athens.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 14. 6
Amphictyon had a son, Itonus, who in his turn became the father of Boeotus, Iodame and Chromia by Melanippe.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 1.1.&9. 34. 1Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1206Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 1. 4 He also had a daughter, never mentioned by name, who became the mother of Cercyon by Poseidon, and of Triptolemus by Rarus.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 14. 3 Some add that Amphictyon had another son, Physcus, by Chthonopatra;Eustathius on Homer, p. 277 others, however, state that Physcus was the grandson of Amphictyon through Aetolus.Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Physkos
Amphictyon ruled Athens for ten, or in some accounts, twelve years and founded the Amphictyonic League, which traditionally met at Thermopylae in historical times.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 8. 1Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquities, 4. 25. 3 During his reign, Dionysus was supposed to have visited Amphictyon in Athens and taught him how to mix water with wine in the proper proportions.Eustathius on Homer, p. 1815 Amphictyon was deposed by Erichthonius, another autochthonous king of Athens.
==References==
==Sources ==
* Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Amphictyon" 
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