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AMPHITRYON , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, son of See also:Alcaeus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Tiryns in Argolis. Having accidentally killed his See also:uncle Electryon, king of See also:Mycenae, he was driven out by another uncle, Sthenelus. He fled with See also:Alcmene, Electryon's daughter, to See also:Thebes, where he was cleansed from the See also:guilt of See also:blood by See also:Creon, his maternal uncle, king of Thebes. Alcmene, who had been betrothed to Amphitryon by her See also:father, refused to marry him until he had avenged the See also:death of her See also:brothers, all of whom except one had fallen in See also:battle against the Taphians. It was on his return from this expedition that Electryon had been killed. Amphitryon accordingly took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field against the Taphians, accompanied by Creon, who had agreed to assist him on See also:condition that he slew the Teumessian See also:fox which had been sent by See also:Dionysus to ravage the See also:country. The Taphians, however, remained invincible until Comaetho, the king's daughter, out of love for Amphitryon cut off her father's See also:golden See also:hair, the See also:possession of which rendered him immortal. Having defeated the enemy, Amphitryon put Comaetho to death and handed over the See also:kingdom of the Taphians to Cephalus. On his return to Thebes he married Alcmene, who gave See also:birth to twin sons, Iphicles being the son of Amphitryon, Heracles of See also:Zeus, who had visited her during Amphitryon's See also:absence. He See also:fell in battle against the Minyans, against whom he had undertaken an expedition, accompanied by the youthful Heracles, to deliver Thebes from a disgraceful See also:tribute. According to See also:Euripides (See also:Hercules Furens) he survived this expedition, and was slain by his son in his madness. Amphitryon was the See also:title of a lost tragedy of See also:Sophocles; the See also:episode of Zeus and Alcmene forms the subject of comedies by See also:Plautus and See also:Moliere. From Moliere's See also:line " Le veritable Amphitryon est l'Amphitryon ou l'on dine " (Amphitryon, iii. 5), the name Amphitryon has come to be used in the sense of a generous entertainer, a See also:good See also:host.
See also:Apollodorus ii. 4; See also:Herodotus v. 59; See also:Pausanias viii. 14, ix, 1o, r1, 17; See also:Hesiod, See also:Shield, 1-56; See also:Pindar, Pythia, ix. 81.
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