Amyclae

For the modern village, see Amykles. For the bishopric, see Diocese of Amyclae. For the ancient town in Italy, see Amyclae (Italy).
Map (in Spanish) of ancient southern Peloponnesia; Amyclae is the city titled "Amiclas" just south of Sparta (Esparta).

Amyclae or Amyklai (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύκλαι) was a city of ancient Laconia, situated on the right or western bank of the Eurotas, 20 stadia south of Sparta, in a district remarkable for the abundance of its trees and its fertility.[1][2] Amyclae was one of the most celebrated cities of Peloponnesus in the Greek Heroic Age. It is said to have been founded by the Lacedaemonian king Amyclas, the father of Hyacinthus, and to have been the abode of Tyndarus, and of Castor and Pollux, who are hence called Amyclaei Fratres.[3] Amyclae is mentioned by Homer,[4] and it continued to maintain its independence as an Achaean town long after the conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians.

  1. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 5.19.
  2. ^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 34.28.
  3. ^ Pausanias (1918). "1.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.; Stat. Theb. 7.413.
  4. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.584.