Amyntor

[am-in-tawr]

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a king of Ormenium who refused to give his daughter Astydamia to Hercules and who was slain by Hercules.

Example Sentences

As Apollo’s champion Hercules is Daphnephoros, and fights Cycnus and Amyntor to keep open the sacred way from Tempe to Delphi.

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Gerhard von Amyntor, who is one of the best known of German authors, is also a very diligent writer.

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In 1699 he published two treatises,—one entitled Three Practical Essays on Baptism, Confirmation and Repentance, and the other, Some Reflections on that part of a book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton’s Life, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers, and, the Canon of the New Testament.

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The spurious gospels opened a fresh theological campaign, and produced his “Amyntor.”

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The domestic wretchedness in which the majority of wives live to-day, is correctly depicted by the bourgeois-minded Gerhard von Amyntor in his "Marginal Notes to the Book of Life."

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