The Amphrysus (Ancient Greek: Ἄμφρυσος - Amphrysos[1] or Ἄμφρυσσος - Amphryssos)[2] was a river in ancient Thessaly, flowing from Mount Othrys to the Pagasetic Gulf.[3] According to Strabo, it flowed close to the walls of the town Halos.[4]

Amphrysus
Amphrysus is located in Greece
Amphrysus
Location of mouth
Location
CountryAncient Greece
ProvinceThessaly
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMount Othrys
 • coordinates39°1′1″N 22°42′35″E / 39.01694°N 22.70972°E / 39.01694; 22.70972
Mouth 
 • location
Pagasetic Gulf
 • coordinates
39°15′N 23°00′E / 39.250°N 23.000°E / 39.250; 23.000

In Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo" (48) Apollo tends Admetus' herds by the Amphryssos during his punishment for killing the Cyclopes. In the Argonautica (I.53) of Apollonius of Rhodes Eupolemeia bore the Argonaut Aethalides to Hermes near the Amphryssos.

In Virgil's Aeneid, 6.398, Virgil refers to the Sibyl (the aged prophetess who accompanies Aeneas to the Underworld) as Amphrysia vates ("Amphrysian seer"), to indicate that she is a priestess of the god Apollo. R. D. Williams comments: "Servius is justified in his comment longe petitum epitheton ["a far-fetched epithet"]."

References

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  1. ^ Strabo.
  2. ^ Callimachus, Apollonius.
  3. ^   Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Amphrysus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. p. 127.
  4. ^ Strabo, Geographica, 9.5.9