AMPHlDAMAS

1. A son of Lycurgus and Cleophile, and father of Antimache, who married Eurystheus. (Apollodorus iii) According to Pausanias and Apollonius Rhodius (Argonautica) he was a son of Aleus, and consequently a brother of Lycurgus, Cepheus, and Auge, and took part in the expedition of the Argonauts.

2. A king of Chalcis in Euboea, after whose death his sons celebrated funeral games, in which Hesiod won the prize in a poetical contest. It consisted of a golden tripod which he dedicated to the Muses of Helicon.

3. The father of Clysonymus, whom Patroclus killed when yet a child. (Apollodorus iii) Other mythical personages of this name occur in Apollodorus. ii.