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AMPHIARAUS , in See also:

Greek See also:mythology, a celebrated seer and See also:prince of See also:Argos, son of Olcles (or See also:Apollo) and Hypermestra, and through his See also:father descended from the See also:prophet See also:Melampus (Odyssey, xv. 244). He took See also:part in the voyage of the See also:Argonauts and in the See also:chase of the Calydonian See also:boar; but his See also:chief fame is in connexion with the expedition of the Seven against See also:Thebes, organized by Adrastus, the See also:brother of his wife See also:Eriphyle, for the purpose of restoring Polyneices to the See also:throne. Amphiaraus, fore-seeing the disastrous issue of the See also:war, at first refused to See also:share in it; he had, however, promised Eriphyle when he married her that, in the event of any dispute arising between her brother and ' See " The See also:Electrolysis of See also:Copper Sulphate in Standardizing See also:Electrical See also:Instruments," by A. W: Meikle, read before the See also:Physical Society of See also:Glasgow University on the 27th of See also:January 1888, or J. A. See also:Fleming, A Handbook for the Electrical Laboratory and Testing See also:Room, vol. i. p. 343. ,!VII!16NIV~~III~IIItl~llll_ himself, she should decide between them; and now Eriphyle, bribed by Polyneices with the fatal necklace given by See also:Cadmus to See also:Harmonia, persuaded him against his better See also:judgment to set out on the expedition. Knowing his See also:doom, he bade his sons, See also:Alcmaeon and See also:Amphilochus, avenge his See also:death upon their See also:mother, upon whom, as he stepped into his See also:chariot, he turned a look of anger. This See also:scene was represented upon the See also:chest of Cypselus described by See also:Pausanias (v. 17).

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assault on Thebes was disastrous for the Seven; and Amphiaraus, pursued by Periclymenus, would have been slain with his See also:spear, had not See also:Zeus with a thunderbolt opened a chasm into which the seer, with his chariot, horses and charioteer, disappeared. Henceforth he was numbered with the immortals and worshipped as a See also:god. Near See also:Oropus, on the supposed site of his passing, his See also:sanctuary arose, with healing springs, and an See also:oracle famous for its See also:interpretation of dreams (Pausanias i. 34). The ruins of this See also:temple, with See also:inscriptions which identify it, have been discovered and preserved at Mavrodilisi, in the provinces of See also:Boeotia and See also:Attica. There was another temple dedicated to him on the road from Thebes to Potniae, and here was the oracle of Amphiaraus consulted by See also:Croesus and Mardonius. See also:Homer, Odyssey, xi. 326; See also:Herodotus viii. 134; See also:Pindar, See also:Olympia, vi., Nemea, ix.; See also:Apollodorus iii. 6.

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