Amphiaraos
In the Greek Mythology, Amphiaraos (in Greek old Ἀμφιάραος / Amphiáraos ), wire of Oïclès (king of Argos) and of Hypermnestre (girl of Thestios), is a hero and soothsayer argien. It passes sometimes for the son of Apollon.
Myth
He plays a big role in the legends of the Cycle thébain relating to the generation which preceded that by the heroes of the Trojan War.
Amphiaraos marries Ériphyle, that Polynice bribes with the collar of Harmony, so that she persuades the hero to take share with the Guerre of the seven chiefs. Knowing that none of the Seven, except for Adraste, would return alive from there, Amphiaraos leaves to regret, not without to have before ordered with his/her children to avenge his death by killing their mother and by organizing the one second forwarding against Thèbes.
It attacks Thèbes but it is pushed back, and, whereas it flees, it is absorbed in a pit that the lightning of Zeus had opened in the ground.
It is the origin of the famous oracular sanctuary of Amphiaraos with Oropos, where one returned oracles by the interpretation of the dreams (Oniromancie).
See too
- Alcméon
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