Amycus
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- For the centaur of this name see Amycus (centaur), and other meanings see Amycus (disambiguation).
In Greek mythology, Amycus (Ἄμυκος) was the son of Poseidon and Melia. He was a boxer and King of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia. Polydeuces beat him in a boxing match when the Argonauts passed through Bithynia.[1][2][3][4] He was also a prominent Trojan during the Trojan War. He married Theona and had one son named Mimas.[5] He followed Aeneas to Italy, where he was killed by Turnus.[6]
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- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2. 1.ff & 2. 94 ff with scholia
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 9. 20
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 17
- ^ Argonautica Orphica, 657 ff
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid, 10. 702
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid, 12. 509
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