Amphidamas
- one of the Argonauts, son of Alĕus, from Arcadia, Hyg. Fab. 14; Val. Fl. 1, 376.
(Ἀμφιδάμας).
1. A son of Lycurgus and Cleophile, and father of Antimache, who married Eurystheus. (Apollod. 3.9.2.) According to Pausanias (8.4.6) and Apollonius Rhodius (1.163) he was a son of Aleus, and consequently a brother of Lycurgus, Cepheus, and Auge, and took part in the expedition of the Argonauts. (Hyg. Fab. 14.)
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. (Hes. Op. et D. 654, &c.)
3. The father of Clysonymus, whom Patroclus killed when yet a child. (Hom. Il. 23.87 ; Apollod. 3.13.8.) Other mythical personages of this name occur in Apollod. 2.5.11; Hyg. Fab. 14; Hom. Il. 10.266, &c. [L.S]
or Amphi'damus (Ἀμφιδάμας, Ἀμφίδαμος), general of the Eleans in B. C. 218, was taken prisoner by Philip, king of Macedonia, and carried to Olympia, but was set at liberty on his undertaking to bring over his countrymen to Philip's side. But not succeeding in his attempt, he went back to Philip, and is spoken of as defending Aratus against the charges of Apelles. (Plb. 4.75, 84, 86.)
- Apollod. 3.13.8
- Paus. 7.4.8
- killed by Herakles: Apollod. 2.5.11
- father of Melanion and Antimache: Apollod. 3.9.1