Word info

Amphitryon

Noun

Meaning

Amphitryon (plural Amphitryons)

(poetic) A host or entertainer.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine. John Dryden

The true Amphitryon Is the Amphitryon who gives dinner. Molière

By his adoptive descent through Amphitryon, Heracles receives the epithet Alcides, as "of the line of Alcaeus ", father of Amphitryon. Source: Internet

Eyewitnesses of the event confirm that the seer did not call for Amphitryon: thus even at that time he knew that the lord of the manor was not at home. Source: Internet

Once Amphitryon had firmly put out of his mind his first wild impulse to burn his wife alive, he meditated taking a great vow never to touch her again, for fear of bringing down on his own head the jealousy of Zeus. Source: Internet

When Amphitryon finally returned to Thebes, Alcmene told him that he had come the night before and slept with her; he learned from Tiresias what Zeus had done. Source: Internet

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