Amykos

{{Short description|Character in Greek mythology}} {{Redirect|Amycus}} [[Image:Amykos Argonautes Cdm Paris 442.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Amycus punished, red-figured Lucanian hydria, end of 4th century BC, Cabinet des Médailles]]

In Greek mythology, '''Amykos''' ({{langx|grc|Ἄμυκος}}), Latinized as '''Amycus''', was the king of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia.

== Family == Amycus was the son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melia.<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 2.1 ff. & 2.94 ff. with scholia</ref>

== Mythology == Amycus was a doughty man but being a king he compelled strangers to box as a way of killing them.<ref>Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. Loeb Classical Library</ref> When the Argonauts passed through Bithynia, Amycus challenged the best man of the crew to a boxing match. Polydeuces undertook to box against him and killed him with a blow on the elbow.<ref>Apollodorus, 1.9.20; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 17; ''Orphic Argonautica'' 657 ff.</ref>

When the Bebryces rush to avenge him, the chiefs snatched up their arms and put them to flight with great slaughter.

== Bay/Port ==

During ancient times, the bay at modern Beykoz was called Amykos.<ref>Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'' [https://topostext.org/work/148#5.43.2 5.43.2]; Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos [https://topostext.org/work/619#97 97]</ref>

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== References ==

* Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website]. *Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * ''The Orphic Argonautica'', translated by Jason Colavito. © Copyright 2011. [https://topostext.org/work/549 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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