Amphitryon

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He stood, possessed by overwhelming astonishment and delight.

and because in seven-gated Thebes, beside Amphitryon’s splendid tomb, the Cadmeans gladly crowned him with flowers, for the sake of Aegina.

And swiftly the chiefs of the Cadmeans rushed in together in their bronze armor, and Amphitryon came brandishing a sword bared from its scabbard, stricken with sharp distress.

Amphitryon dedicated me from the spoils of Teleboae.

This would date from about the time of Laius the son of Labdacus, grandson of Polydorus and great-grandson of Cadmus.

and in the same night Amphitryon, gatherer of the people, the glorious hero, came to his house when he had ended his great task.

Or like her who left home and country and came to Thebes, following warlike Amphitryon,—even Alcmena, the daughter of Electryon, gatherer of the people.

With him went the horse-driving Boeotians, breathing above their shields, and the Locrians who fight hand to hand, and the gallant Phocians eager for war and battle.

"Then I saw Alkmene, the wife of Amphitryon, who also bore to Zeus indomitable Herakles;

For in the likeness of Amphitryon he came to Alcmena, and as a shower of gold he united with Danae, and in the guise of a swan he took refuge in the bosom of Nemesis, and again in this form he espoused Leda;

And Heracles stretched his invincible hands up to heaven and said, “Father Zeus, if you have ever heard my prayers with a willing heart, now, now with divine prayers

and to invoke your sons, Amphitryon, and the secluded valley of Minyas, and Eleusis, the famous precinct of Demeter, and Euboea, when we speak of curving race-courses.

There is no city so barbarous or so strange in its speech that it does not know the fame of the hero Peleus, the fortunate in-law of gods, or of Aias and his father Telamon.

Wise Alcmena lay with Amphitryon and with Zeus, and bore in a single birth twin sons, strong and victorious in battle.

when he had cut off the head of Eurystheus with the edge of his sword, he was buried below the earth by the tomb of the charioteer Amphitryon, his father’s father, where he lay as the guest of the Sown Men, having come to dwell in the streets of the Cadmeans, who ride on white horses.

Amphitryon’s twenty-fifth ancestor was such as fortune happened to make him, and the fiftieth for that matter.

And when people pride themselves on a list of twenty-five ancestors and trace their pedigree back to Heracles, the son of Amphitryon, the pettiness of their ideas seems absurd to him;

JUPITER, who personates Amphitryon.

and Jupiter and Amphitryon seize (Raptant) one another as adulterers.

He, before he departed hence for the expedition, left his wife Alcmena pregnant.