Amycias
Ἀμύκλας
(Ἀμύκλας), a son of Lacedaemon and Sparta, and father of Hyacinthus by Diomede, the daughter of Lapithus. (Apollod. 3.10.3; Paus. 10.9.3, 7.18.4.) He was king of Laconia, and was regarded as the founder of the town of Amyclae. (Paus. 3.1.3.) Two other mythical personages of this name occur in Parthen. Erot. 15, and Apollod. 3.9.1.
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.