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Amphimachus

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Amphimachus is a name attributed to multiple individuals.

imachus was the son of Cteatus (son of Actor

Actor (mythology)

Actor is a very common name in Greek mythology. Here is a selection of characters that share this name :#Actor, a king of Phthia, was said to be the son of King Deion of Phocis and Diomede, or of King Myrmidon and Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus....
) and Theronice, daughter of Dexamenus

Dexamenus

Dexamenus was a name attributed to two characters in Greek mythology.*Dexamenus, son of Oeceus, king of Olenus. The Centaur Eurytion forced him to betroth his daughter, Mnesimache, to him....
. He was one of the leaders of the Elean

Elis

Elis, or Eleia is an ancient district, that corresponds with the modern Elis Prefecture. It is in southern Greece on the Peloponnesos peninsula, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea....
contingent at the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
(the other was Thalpius, son of Eurytus

Eurytus

In Greek mythology, Eurytus is the name of numerous characters....
) and was slain by Hector

Hector

In Greek mythology, Hector , or Hektor, is a Troy prince and one of the greatest fighters in the Trojan War. He is the son of Priam and Hecuba, descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy....
.

imachus was the son of Nomion. He and his brother Nastes were captains of the Caria

Caria

Caria was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionians and Dorians Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there....
n contingent on the side of the Trojans in the Trojan War.

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Greek mythology

Son of Cteatus

Amphimachus was the son of Cteatus (son of Actor

Actor (mythology)

Dexamenus

Elis

Trojan War

Eurytus

In Greek mythology, Eurytus is the name of numerous characters....
) and was slain by Hector

Hector

Son of Nomion

Amphimachus was the son of Nomion. He and his brother Nastes were captains of the Caria

Caria

Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
.

Son of Electryon

Amphimachus was the son of Electryon

Electryon

In Greek mythology, Electryon was the son of Perseus and Andromeda , and king of Mycenae. He married either Anaxo, daughter of his brother Alcaeus and sister of Amphitryon, or Eurydice of Mycenae daughter of Pelops....
and Anaxo

Anaxo

In Greek mythology, Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and either Astydamia, daughter of Pelops or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus....
, killed (along with most of his brothers) by the sons of Pterelaus

Pterelaus

The name Pterelaus is attributed to two individuals in Greek mythology....
.

King of Elis

Amphimachus was the son of Polyxenus

Polyxenus

In Greek mythology, Polyxenus was one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the first to learn the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries.In Biology, Polyxenus is a genus of millipede, which are covered with detachable barbed bristles to defend against predators....
and was also the king of Elis

Elis

Suitors of Penelope

Amphimachus was one of the suitors of Penelope

Penelope

In Homer's Odyssey, Penel?pe is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps Suitors of Penelope at bay in his long absence and so is eventually rejoined with him....
from Dulichium

Dulichium

Dulichium, Dolicha, or Doliche was a place noted by numerous ancient writers that was either a city on, or an island off, the Ionian Sea coast of Acarnania, Greece....
. He was ultimately killed by Odysseus

Odysseus

Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
. Another suitor of Penelope named Amphimachus was from Ithaca

Ithaca

Ithaca or Ithaka is an island in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 118 km? and three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent Communities and Municipalities of Greece of the prefecture of Kefalonia and Ithaka Prefecture, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia....
. He too was ultimately killed by Odysseus.

Greek warrior

Amphimachus was a Greek warrior in the Trojan War, and one of the men hidden inside the Trojan horse

Trojan Horse

The "Trojan Horse" refers to the stratagem that allowed the Greeks to finally enter the city of Troy during the Trojan War. In the best-known version of this Bronze Age story, after a fruitless 10-year siege of Troy, the Greeks built a huge figure of a horse, in which a select force of men hid....
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