Amarynthus

Amarynthus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάρυνθος) was in Greek mythology a hunter of Artemis, from whom the town of Amarynthus in Euboea (Stephanus of Byzantium says that it was Euboea itself) was believed to have derived its name.^[1] From this hero, or rather from the town of Amarynthus, Artemis derived the surname Amarynthia or Amarysia, under which she was worshipped there and also in Attica.^[2][3][4]

References

1. Strabo, Geographica x. p. 448
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece i. 31. § 3
3. Dict. of Ant. s.v. Ἀμαρύνθια
4. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Amarynthus". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 136.

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