Amythaon King of Iolcus

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMYTHAON - 1 dictionary results –noun Classical Mythology. the son of Cretheus and Tyro who supported Jason's claim to the throne of Iolcus. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc.

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Location

Coordinates 39°24′N 22°58′E / 39.4, 22.967Coordinates: 39°24′N 22°58′E / 39.4, 22.967 Time zone: EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) Elevation (center): 156 m (512 ft) Government Country: Greece Periphery: Thessaly Prefecture: Magnesia Population statistics (as of 2001[1]) City Proper

- Population: 2,071

- Area:[2] 1.981 km² (1 sq mi)

- Density: 1,045 /km² (2,708 /sq mi) Codes Postal: 385 00 Telephone: 24210 Auto: ΒΟ Website www.iolkos.gr

Iolcos (also known as Iolkos or Iolcus, Greek: Ιωλκός) was an ancient city in Thessaly, central-eastern Greece (near the modern city of Volos). Today Iolcos is a small village (pop 103 in 2001), which has a school and a small square (plateia). It is located in the surrounding Iolkós Municipality, in central Magnesia Prefecture, north of the Pagasitic Gulf. With a land area of only 1.981 km² it is the 13th-smallest municipality or community in Greece, and the smallest that is not a suburb of Athens or Thessaloniki. The municipality is divided into three municipal districts with a total population of 2,071. Its Ágios Onoúfrios district has a land area of 0.200 km², the smallest municipal district in all of Greece. The district has a population of 506 inhabitants. The municipal seat is the village of Áno Vólos (pop. 529). The small town of Anakasia (pop. 933) is the centre of the municipality of Iolkos. Anakasia has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, banks, a post office and a square (plateia). The only other villages are Ágios Onoúfrios (pop. 506), and Iolkós (103).

The PEDIGREE of Amythaon of IOLCUS

Poss. Jullus of Rome's 22-Great Grandfather.

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poss. Wives/Partners:       Idomene of PHERAE   ;   Idomene of ARGOS

Children:       Bias (King) of the ARGIVES   ;   Melampus `the Seer' (King) of ARGOS

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   / -- Prometheus the TITAN   + ====> [ 7]

  / -- Deucalion of PTHIA

  |  \ -- Celaero

  /     | or: poss. Pronoia

 / -- Hellen (King) of the HELLENES

 |  \   | or: poss. Helius (GOD of the Sun), q.v.

 /   \ -- Pyrrha of PTHIA   + ====> [ 9]

/ -- Aeolus of THESSALY

/   \ -- Orseis the NYMPH   + ====> [ 8] / -- Cretheus (King) of IOLCUS /   \ -- Enarete of THESSALY - Amythaon of IOLCUS \    / -- Aeolus of THESSALY   + ====> [ 11] |  / -- Salmoneus of THESSALY |  /   \ -- Enarete of THESSALY \ -- Tyro of THESSALY

\   / -- Aleus (King) of ARCADIA   + ====> [ 26]

\ -- Alcidice of ARCADIA

 \   / -- Pereus of ARCADIA   + ====> [ 26]

 \ -- Neaera of ARCADIA

   | or: Cleobule

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 His (poss.) 3-Great Grandchildren:       Laomedan (King) of TROY   ;   Themiste of TROY   ;   Telecleia of THRACE   ;   Eurydice (Eurydike) of TROY   ;   Amphithea of ARGOS

Amythaon was the father of Bias and Melampous, who later moved to the court of their uncle Neleus at Pylos, where Bias married Neleus' daughter Pero to become the grandfather of Adrastus, the king of Argos who led the expedition of the Seven against Thebes at the request of Polynices, Oedipus' son. Melampous was a seer and a healer endowed with magical powers and, after helping his brother Bias triumph of the trial set by Neleus to win the hand of his daughter (to steal the herds of Phylacus, the father of his sister-in-law, Æson's wife Alcimede), he came to the rescue of Proetus, the king of Argos, when his daughters, struck with madness, were roaming the countryside, pretending to be cows. As a salary for this work, he asked Proetus one third of his kingdom for himself, and one third for his brother Bias. After Melampous had healed the girls, Proetus gave him and his brother Bias two of them as wives and they jointly reigned over Argos. Yet, it is a son Bias had had with Pero, Talaus, who succeeded him as king of Argos and was the father of Adrastus.

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