Amphithea, wife of Aeolus the Etrurian king, and mother of six sons and six daughters, the youngest boy being Macareus, who made his sister Canace pregnant. Both he and his sister killed themselves.[5]
Amphithea, an alternate name for Hemithea, the sister of Tenes.[6]
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^Apollodorus, 1.9.14, other accounts call Lycurgus' wife and Opheltes' mother Eurydice.
^Servius on Virgil, Eclogues 8.29 – if indeed "Amphithea, daughter of Pronax" is the correct reading behind the actually surviving "*Iphitea, daughter of *Prognaus"
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Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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