Amphictyon, son of Hellen? A misunderstood mythological reference in Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 4.25.3

Nicolas Wiater

doi:10.1017/S0009838816000550

Amphictyon, son of Hellen? A misunderstood mythological reference in Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 4.25.3

Nicolas Wiater

School of Classics

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Virtually all the major scholarly reference works, as well as many more popular sources, provide two alternative versions of the ancestry of Amphictyon, the mythical founder of the Delphic-Pylaic amphictyony, as either the son or the grandson of Deucalion, that is, by implication, either the brother or the son of Hellen. Yet, a review of all relevant sources shows that they unanimously and exclusively refer to Amphictyon as the son of Deucalion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	804-7
Journal	The Classical Quarterly
Volume	66
Issue number	2
Early online date	29 Jul 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838816000550
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

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