Amyntor
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Amyntor of the deme Herchia · Amyntor son of Ormenus · father Amyntor · son of Ormenus
in the texts
Iliad
Phoenix's father, whose curse against him is fulfilled by the gods.
I was then fleeing the anger of father Amyntor, son of Ormenus, who was furious with me in the matter of his concubine, of whom he was enamored to the wronging of his wife my mother.
This helmet had been stolen by Autolykos out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus.
On the Embassy
An Athenian citizen called as a witness to testify that Demosthenes privately showed him a decree identical in substance to the one moved by Philocrates.
Now, if you please, call Amyntor of the deme Herchia;
But please call Amyntor of the deme Herchia and read his testimony.
and the fourth, a man of repute, who is active in public affairs, Amyntor, to whom Demosthenes exhibited the draft of a decree, asking him whether he should advise him to hand it to the clerk, a decree not contrary in its provisions to that of Philocrates, but identical with it.
Olympian
Ancestor on the maternal side of the Heraclid line at Rhodes, through his daughter Astydameia.
For, on the father’s side, they boast descent from Zeus, while, on the mother’s, they are descendants of Amyntor, through Astydameia.