Amythaon
Ἀμυθάων
(Ἀμυθάων), a son of Cretheus and Tyro (Hom. Od. 11.235, &c.), and brother of Aeson and Pheres. (Hom. Od. 11.259.) He dwelt at Pylos in Messenia. and by Idomene became the father of Bias, Melampus, and Acolia. (Apollod. 1.9.11, 7.7.) According to Pindar (Pind. P. 4.220, &c.), he and several other members of his family went to Iolcus to intercede with Pelias on behalf of Jason. Pausanias (5.8.1) mentions him among those to whom the restoration of the Olympian games was ascribed.
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.