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]
^Servius on
Virgil, Eclogues 8.29 – if indeed "Amphithea, daughter of Pronax" is the correct reading behind the actually surviving "*Iphitea, daughter of *Prognaus"
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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