Amphimedon
Ἀμφιμέδων
(Ἀμφιμέδων), a son of Melaneus of Ithaca, with whom Agamemnon had been staying when he came to call upon Odysseus to join the Greeks against Troy, and whom he afterwards recognised in Hades. (Hom. Od. 24.103, &c.) He was one of the suitors of Penelope, and was slain by Telemachus. (Od. 22.284.) Another mythical personage of this name occurs in Ovid. (Met. 5.75.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.