In Greek mythology, Amykos (Ancient Greek: Ἄμυκος), Latinized as Amycus, was the king of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia.

Amycus punished, red-figured Lucanian hydria, end of 4th century BC, Cabinet des Médailles

Family

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Amycus was the son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melia.[1]

Mythology

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Amycus was a doughty man but being a king he compelled strangers to box as a way of killing them.[2] 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.[3]

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

Bay/Port

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During ancient times, the bay at modern Beykoz was called Amykos.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, 2.1 ff. & 2.94 ff. with scholia
  2. ^ Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. Loeb Classical Library
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.20; Hyginus, Fabulae 17; Orphic Argonautica 657 ff.
  4. ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.43.2; Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos 97

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