Amphictyon, son of Hellen? A misunderstood mythological reference in Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 4.25.3

Wiater, Nicolas

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12/2016

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Abstract

Virtually all the major scholarly reference works, as well as many more popular sources, provide two alternative versions of the ancestry of Amphictyon, the mythical founder of the Delphic-Pylaic amphictyony, as either the son or the grandson of Deucalion, that is, by implication, either the brother or the son of Hellen. Yet, a review of all relevant sources shows that they unanimously and exclusively refer to Amphictyon as the son of Deucalion.

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Wiater , N 2016 , ' Amphictyon, son of Hellen? A misunderstood mythological reference in Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 4.25.3 ' , The Classical Quarterly , vol. 66 , no. 2 , pp. 804-7 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838816000550

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The Classical Quarterly

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Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838816000550

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0009-8388

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Journal article

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Copyright © The Classical Association 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838816000550

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9258