Amythaonius
a patronymic from Amythaon, by which his son, the seer Melampus, is sometimes designated. (Verg. G. 3.550; Columell. 10.348.) The descendants of Amythaon in general are called by the Greeks Amythaonidae. (Strab. viii. p.372.)
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.