Amphilochus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Amphilochus the son of Amphiaraus · ambassador sent to negotiate for the captives
in the texts
Philip’s Letter
Ambassador sent to negotiate over captives and allegedly tortured by Diopithes.
But his crowning act of lawlessness was the arrest of Amphilochus, the ambassador sent to negotiate for the captives;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Son of Amphiaraus who, on returning from the Trojan War dissatisfied with the state of Argos, founded Argos in Amphilochia on the Ambracian Gulf.
[and he built it] on the Ambracian Gulf, and called it Argos after the name of his own country.
Argos in Amphilochia and The rest of the country was colonized by Amphilochus the son of Amphiaraus, when he returned home after the Trojan war, and was not pleased with the state of things at Argos;