Amphithemis

For the genus of dragonflies, see Amphithemis (dragonfly).

In Greek mythology, Amphithemis (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίθεμις), was the name of the following figures:

• Amphithemis, son of Acacallis (the daughter of Minos) and Apollo. He was born in Libya, to which Minos had banished Acacallis in retribution for her having an illicit relationship. By the Libyan lake nymph Tritonis, he fathered two sons: Nasamon and Caphaurus (also known as Cephalion). The latter was a shepherd who slew the Argonauts Eurybate and Canthus after they plundered his flocks.^[1] According to Apollonius of Rhodes, Amphithemis was also named Garamas (the eponym of the Garamantes).^[2]
• In the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (5th century AD), Amphithemis is a centaur.^[3]

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1. Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.1490 ff.; Hyginus, Fabulae 14
2. Apollonius Rhodius (2009). Argonautica. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Race, William H. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 449. doi:10.4159/DLCL.apollonius_rhodes-argonautica.2009.
3. RE, s.v. Amphithemis (2); Nonnus, 14.168 ff.

References

• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I, Halbband 2, edited by Georg Wissowa, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1894. Wikisource.