What is "ampyx"

Ampyx \Am"pyx\, n. [Gr. ?.] (Greek Antiq.) A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair. [1913 Webster] ||

n. A woman's headband (sometimes of metal), for binding the front hair in Ancient Greece.

Ampyx has several meanings; in hair care, an ampyx is a headband, often made of metal. In Greek mythology, there were a number of figures with the name Ampyx, Amycus or Ampycus (alt. "Ampykos").

• Ampyx or Ampycus was a seer, the son of Elatus. He fathered Mopsus with the nymph Chloris. Appears in Orpheus's, Argonautica, Pausanias's Description of Greece, Hyginus's Fabulae.
• Ampyx or Ampycus was an Ethiopian priest of Demeter (Ceres). He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses and was slain by Phineus during a fight between Phineus and Perseus (see Boast of Cassiopeia), just before Phineus was turned to stone.
• Ampyx or Amycus, son of Ophion, was one of the Lapiths who fought the centaurs at Pirithous's wedding. Appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
• Ampyx, an ancestor of Patreas, the founder of Patrae. He appears in Pausanias's Description of Greece.

• Ampyx (trilobite), a genus of asaphid trilobite from the Middle Ordovician

Ampyx (meaning hairband) is a Ordovician- Silurian genus of Asaphid trilobites of the family Raphiophoridae. Species of Ampyx are characterized by three extended spines on the head-shield, one spine derived from each free cheek, and one spine emanating from the glabella. Species include Ampyx linleyensis ( Lanvirn- Caradoc series).

Species of Ampyx grew to an average length of 1.5 inches (4 centimeters).