Character · Individual

Amphimedon

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name: Amphimedon
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: The current source prints the name once as “Am phimedon” and later as “Amphimedon”; the continuous six-man attack identifies one fighter.

Aliases

Am phimedon

Alternative name · Direct

son of Melaneus

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

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house of Hades1 observation

·Direct

Amphimedon continued his conversation in the house of Hades.

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“Thus did they converse in the house of Hades deep down within the bowels of the earth. Meanwhile Ulysses and the others passed out of the town and soon reached the fair and well-tilled farm of Laertes, which he had reclaimed with infinite labour. Here was his house, with a lean-to running all round it, where the slaves who worked for him slept and sat and ate, while inside the house there was an old Sicel woman, who looked after him in this his country-farm. When Ulysses got there, he said to his son and to the other two: ”

Claims

·Direct

Amphimedon grazes Telemachus’s wrist with a spear and is then hit by Telemachus’s return throw.

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“Amphimedon just took a piece of the top skin from off Telemachus’s wrist, and Ctesippus managed to graze Eumaeus’s shoulder above his shield; but the spear went on and fell to the ground. Then Ulysses and his men let drive into the crowd of suitors. Ulysses hit Eurydamas, Telemachus Amphimedon”

·Direct

Amphimedon is Melaneus’s son, lived in Ithaca, and had hosted Agamemnon.

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“Amphimedon son of Melaneus, who lived in Ithaca and had been his host”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“Still, Amphimedon just took a piece of the top skin from off Telemachus’s wrist”

·Direct

“Then Ulysses and his men let drive into the crowd of suitors. Ulysses hit Eurydamas, Telemachus Amphimedon, and Eumaeus Polybus.”

·Direct

“Amphimedon son of Melaneus”