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Amphimachus

Epean captain

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Canonical name
Amphimachus
Disambiguator
Epean captain
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Character
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Individual
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Aliases

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son of Cteatus

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Claims

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·Direct

Hector’s spear strikes Amphimachus in the chest as he enters battle, and he falls heavily with armour rattling.

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“Hector took aim at him with a spear. Teucer saw the spear coming and swerved aside, whereon it hit Amphimachus, son of Cteatus son of Actor, in the chest as he was coming into battle, and his armour rang rattling round him as he fell heavily to the ground.”

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2
·Direct
“captains were Amphimachus and Thalpius”
·Direct
“Amphimachus, son of Cteatus son of Actor”

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 46

The men, moreover, of Buprasium and of Elis, so much of it as is enclosed between Hyrmine, Myrsinus upon the seashore, the rock Olene and Alesium. These had four leaders, and each of them had ten ships, with many Epeans on board. Their captains were Amphimachus and Thalpius—the one, son of Cteatus, and the other, of Eurytus—both of the race of Actor. The two others were Diores, son of Amarynces, and Polyxenus, son of King Agasthenes, son of Augeas.