Ampyx

Ampyx (Greek: Ἄμπυξ) has several meanings; in hair care, an ampyx is a headband, often made of metal. In Greek mythology, there were a number of figures with the name Ampyx, Amycus or Ampycus (alt. "Ampykos").

• Ampyx or Ampycus was a seer, the son of Elatus. He fathered Mopsus with the nymph Chloris. Appears in Orpheus's, Argonautica,^[1] Pausanias's Description of Greece,^[2] Hyginus's Fabulae.^[3]
• Ampyx or Ampycus was an Ethiopian priest of Demeter (Ceres). He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses^[4] and was slain by Phineus during a fight between Phineus and Perseus (see Boast of Cassiopeia), just before Phineus was turned to stone.
• Ampyx or Amycus, son of Ophion, was one of the Lapiths who fought the centaurs at Pirithous's wedding. Appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses.^[5]
• Ampyx, an ancestor of Patreas, the founder of Patrae. He appears in Pausanias's Description of Greece.^[6]

other

• Ampyx (trilobite), a genus of asaphid trilobite from the Middle Ordovician

References

1. Orpheus. Argonautica, 948.
2. Pausanias. Description of Greece, 5.17.10.
3. Hyginus. Fabulae. Book 14, 128.
4. Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book 5, 110.
5. Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book 12, 450.
6. Pausanias. Description of Greece, 7.18.5.