For the modern village, see Amykles. For the bishopric, see Diocese of Amyclae. For the ancient town in Italy, see Amyclae (Italy).
Map (in Spanish) of ancient southern Peloponnesia; Amyclae is the city titled "Amiclas" just south of Sparta (Esparta).
Amyclae or Amyklai (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύκλαι) was a city of ancient Laconia, situated on the right or western bank of the Eurotas, 20 stadia south of Sparta, in a district remarkable for the abundance of its trees and its fertility.[1][2] Amyclae was one of the most celebrated cities of Peloponnesus in the Greek Heroic Age. It is said to have been founded by the Lacedaemonian king Amyclas, the father of Hyacinthus, and to have been the abode of Tyndarus, and of Castor and Pollux, who are hence called Amyclaei Fratres.[3] Amyclae is mentioned by Homer,[4] and it continued to maintain its independence as an Achaean town long after the conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians.
^Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 5.19.
^Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 34.28.
^Pausanias (1918). "1.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.; Stat. Theb. 7.413.
Amyclae or Amyklai (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύκλαι) was a city of ancient Laconia, situated on the right or western bank of the Eurotas, 20 stadia south of Sparta...
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final resting place of Cassandra is either in Amyclae or Mycenae. Statues of Cassandra exist both in Amyclae and across the Peloponnese peninsula from Mycenae...
The Diocese or Bishopric of Amyclae is a defunct Latin and Orthodox episcopal see and suppressed Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the Peloponnese,...
The death of Hyacinthus was celebrated at Amyclae by the second most important of Spartan festivals, the Hyacinthia (Ancient Greek Ὑακίνθια / Hyakínthia)...
ancient town Amyclae, the ruins of which are situated 2 km northeast of the village. According to some sources, the ancient town Amyclae (Ancient Greek:...
Agamemnon. His tomb was pointed out among the ruins of Mycenae and at Amyclae. In works of art, there is considerable resemblance between the representations...
romanized: Amýklas) or Amyclus was a king of Sparta and the founder of Amyclae in central Laconia. Amyclas was the son of King Lacedemon and Queen Sparta...
king Oebalus of Sparta, or with king Amyclas, progenitor of the people of Amyclae, dwellers about Sparta. In a scholium to Euripides' Rhesus, she is also...
commissioned by the Spartans to make a marble throne for the statue of Apollo at Amyclae, about 550 BC. Pausanias (iii.18) gives us a detailed description of this...
have built the sanctuary of the Charites, which stood between Sparta and Amyclae, and to have given to those divinities the names of Cleta and Phaenna....
depictions, on the "Royal Portico" at Athens and on the throne of Apollo at Amyclae, of Cephalus being carried off by a goddess whom he identifies as Hemera...
Pherae. Alcon (son of Hippocoon) ✓ One of three sons of Hippocoon from Amyclae, according to Hyginus. Alcon (son of Ares) ✓ Son of Ares from Thrace. Amphiaraus...
Muse by being silent, nor does Apollo respect me; It is in this way that Amyclae, when it would not speak, was destroyed by silence. Tomorrow let him love...
accordingly was personified as a goddess in Sparta. In a temple of Apollo at Amyclae, near Sparta, a statue of Limos showed her in female form as was the case...
number of sacred enclosures have been located near Mycenae, Delphi and Amyclae. Linear B records mention a number of sanctuaries dedicated to a variety...
and Elis. A temple was dedicated to the Charites near the Tiasa river in Amyclae, Laconia that was reportedly founded by the ancient King of Sparta, Lacedaemon...
wife. Pausanias, when describing depictions of Eos's myths at Athens and Amyclae, he calls Eos by the name of Hemera. A scholion on the Odyssey mentions...
Ladon (Orontes) by Ge (Earth) and Stymphalis, or lastly, King Amyclas of Amyclae. The earliest source of the myth of Daphne and Apollo is Phylarchus, quoted...
two sons of the Dioscuri, Anaxias and Mnasinous, and on the throne of Amyclae both were represented riding on horseback. Propertius, Elegies 1.1 Apollodorus...
and submitted Laconia to direct rule from Sparta. He notably conquered Amyclae, a city south of Sparta, and forced several non-Dorian groups to leave...
From c. 750 BC, Sparta embarked on a steady expansion, first by subduing Amyclae and the other Laconian settlements. Later, during the First Messenian War...
Bishop Gian Pietro Carafa, Pope Paul III appointed him titular Bishop of Amyclae so he could serve as Carafa's auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Chieti...
wished to be. The most famous of these thrones was the throne of Apollo in Amyclae. The Romans also had two types of thrones—one for the emperor and one for...
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