Amyclas

[ uh-mahy-klas, -kluhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. a son of Lacedaemon and Sparta.
2. a son of Niobe and Amphion.

Example Sentences

“Our court wears gravity more than we relish,” says the Spartan King Amyclas, hoping for some festive wedding celebrations to raise the collective spirits, in “The Broken Heart,” a 17th-century drama by John Ford being presented at the Duke on 42nd Street by Theater for a New Audience.

From New York Times

Amyclas is mentioned, instead of Hyacinthus, by Simmias περὶ μηνῶν, ap.

From Project Gutenberg

In the time of the Argonautic expedition Castor and Pollux were beardless young men, and their sisters Helena and Clytemnestra were children, and their wives Phœbe and Ilaira were also very young: all these, with the Argonauts Lynceus and Idas, were the grandchildren of Gorgophone, the daughter of Perseus, the son of Danae, the daughter of Acrisius and Eurydice; and Perieres and Oebalus, the husbands of Gorgophone, were the sons of Cynortes, the son of Amyclas, the brother of Eurydice.

From Project Gutenberg

And Lucan says this when he depicts how Cæsar came by night to the little house of the fisher Amyclas to cross the Adriatic Sea.

From Project Gutenberg

Phylarchus says, that this was Daphne, the daughter of Amyclas, who, flying from Apollo, was transformed into a laurel, and honored by that god with the gift of prophecy.

From Project Gutenberg