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Amphilochus or Amphílokhos may refer to:
- In Greek mythology:
- Amphilochus (brother of Alcmaeon)
- Amphilochus (son of Alcmaeon)
- Husband of Alcinoe
- Amphilochus (genus), a genus of crustaceans
In Greek mythology, Amphilochus was the younger son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle and the brother of Alcmaeon.
Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the Seven Against Thebes raid, though he knew he would die. She had been persuaded by Polynices, who offered her the necklace of Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares. Amphiaraus reluctantly agreed to join the fatal battle and asked his sons, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus, to avenge his foreseen death. In the battle, Amphiaraus sought to flee from Periclymenus, the son of Poseidon, who wanted to kill him, but Zeus threw his thunder and the earth opened to swallow Amphiaraus together with his chariot. Alcmaeon killed his mother and exiled himself.
Argive Amphilochus was a prominent seer, and founded several oracles, most importantly at Mallus, a pre-Greek site in Cilicia, and, acting with his half-brother Mopsus, the oracle of Apollo at Colophon in Lydia. According to Herodotus, Amphilochus travelled farther east and founded a Posideion just beyond the mountain-pass "gate" in the Amanus between Cilicia and Syria.
Amphilochus is named among the suitors of Helen in some accounts. After the Trojan War, according to Thucydides (2.68), not caring for the situation in Argos, he founded " Amphilochian Argos and the whole region of Amphilochia" on the Ambracian Gulf, a non-Greek settlement later Hellenized by its Ambraciot neighbors. Also after the Trojan War, he may have been killed either by Apollo, or by his half-brother Mopsus, whom he reciprocally killed in single combat; however, these myths may concern his nephew, also named Amphilochus.
In Greek mythology, in a myth assigned to Euripides by the Bibliotheca, Amphilochus is the son of Alcmaeon, one of the Epigoni, and Manto, the daughter of the Theban seer Teiresias.
Manto is sent to Delphi and then to Caria, and Alcmaeon entrusts young Amphilochus and his sister, Tisiphone, to king Creon of Corinth to be raised, but the queen of Corinth sells Tisiphone into slavery. Alcmaeon eventually recovers his children (the story is told in Alcmaeon in Corinth a lost play by Euripides).
According to Apollodorus, Amphilochus founded Amphilochian Argos, although this is usually attributed to the older Amphilochus (brother of Alcmaeon).
Alcmaeon had a brother named Amphilocus, who is named among the suitors of Helen in some accounts.
Amphilochus is a genus of crustaceans in the Amphipoda order, containing the following species:
- Amphilochus ascidicola Martin, Ortiz & Atienza, 2001
- Amphilochus borealis Enequist, 1949
- Amphilochus brunneus Della Valle, 1893
- Amphilochus casahoya McKinney, 1978
- Amphilochus castroviejoi Ortiz & Lalana, 2002
- Amphilochus delacaya McKinney, 1978
- Amphilochus filidactylus hurley, 1955
- Amphilochus justi Azman, 2009
- Amphilochus kailua J. L. Barnard, 1970
- Amphilochus lacertus Azman, 2009
- Amphilochus likelike J. L. Barnard, 1970
- Amphilochus litoralis Stout, 1912
- Amphilochus manudens Bate, 1862
- Amphilochus marionis Stebbing, 1888
- Amphilochus menehune J. L. Barnard, 1970
- Amphilochus neapolitanus Della Valle, 1893
- Amphilochus opunake J. L. Barnard, 1972
- Amphilochus picadurus J. L. Barnard, 1962
- Amphilochus pillaii Barnard & Thomas, 1983
- Amphilochus planierensis Ledoyer, 1977
- Amphilochus ruperti Moore, 1988
- Amphilochus schubarti Schellenberg, 1938
- Amphilochus spencebatei (Stebbing, 1876)
- Amphilochus tenuimanus Boeck, 1871
- Amphilochus tropicus (Rabindranath, 1972)