Amphiaraus

Amphiarus
Oracular spirit of the Underworld and one of the Seven Against Thebes
General Information
Species	Mortal, later turned to a god
Relationships
Parents	Oicles and Hypermnestra
Consorts	Eriphyle
Children	Alcmaeon and Amphilochus
Languages
Hellēnikḗ(Ancient Greek)	Ἀμφιάραος

In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus or Amphiaraos (/ˌæmfiəˈreɪəs/; Old Greek: Ἀμφιάραος, Ἀμφιάρεως, "very sacred") was the child of Oicles, a seer, and one of the pioneers of the Seven against Thebes. Amphiaraus at to begin refused to go with Adrastus on this undertaking against Thebes as he predicted the passing of everybody who joined the endeavor. His spouse, Eriphyle, inevitably compelled him to go.

In Greek mythology

Calydonian Boar Hunt

Amphiaraus was a seer, and incredibly revered in his time. Both Zeus and Apollo showed a liking him, and Zeus gave him his mysterious ability. Within the era before the Trojan War, Amphiaraus was one of the heroes who was at the Calydonian Boar Hunt.

The Seven Against Thebes

The fabric of the appalling war of the Seven against Thebes was taken up from a few focuses of see by each of the three Greek poets. Eriphyle convinced Amphiaraus to join the mission, against his superior judgment, for he knew it would lead to his ultimate death. She had been induced by Polynices, who in return, offered her the Necklace of Harmonia, once portion of the bride-price of Cadmus, as a bribe for her backing.Amphiaraus quickly agreed to take part in the doomed mission, but mindful of his wife's betryal, inquired his children, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus, to vindicate his inescapable passing by murdering her, ought to he not return. He had predicted the failure and for this reason did not concur to connect to begin with. On the way to the fight, Amphiaraus more than once cautioned the other warriors that the undertaking would fail, and faulted Tydeus for beginning it. For this, he would stop the near to death Tydeus from being immortalized by Athena, by giving him the still-living separated head of his enemy Melanippus, whose brains Tydeus eaten up beside his final breath, disgusting the goddess.

Chthonic deity

Within the fight, Amphiaraus looked to escape from Periclymenus, the "very famous" child of Poseidon, who needed to slaughter him, but Zeus tossed his thunderbolt, and the soil opened to swallow and conceal Amphiaraus and his chariot before Periclymenus could cut him within the back and subsequently disrespect his honor. In this way getting to be a chthonic god, Amphiaraus was afterward satisfied and counseled at his sanctuary.

Legacy

The Murder of Eriphyle

Alcmaeon murdered his mother when Amphiaraus died. He was sought after by the Erinyes as he fled over Greece, inevitably landing at the court of Lord Phegeus, who gave him his girl Alphesiboea in marriage. Depleted, Alcmaeon inquired an prophet how to maintain a strategic distance from the Erinyes and was told that he required to halt where the sun was not beaming when he murdered his mother. That was the mouth of the waterway Achelous, which had been silted up. Achelous himself, god of that waterway, guaranteed him his child, Callirrhoe in marriage in the event that Alcmaeon would recover the accessory and dress which Eriphyle wore when she influenced Amphiaraus to fight in the battle. Alcmaeon had given these gems to Phegeus who had his children murder Alcmaeon when he found Alcmaeon's arrange.