Amphinome (Wife of Aeson)

Amphinome, wife of Aeson and mother to Jason and Promachus. She and her husband were persecuted by king Pelias of Iolcus. After Pelias had killed her husband and younger son, Amphinome stabbed herself with a sword. As she lay dying she pronounced a curse against the king. Otherwise, the mother of the hero was called Polymele, Polymede or Polypheme, Theognete, daughter of Laodicus, Rhoeo, Arne or Scarphe.

Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.50.2
Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 38; Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.979; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 12.69
Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 175 & 872
Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.45
Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.979
Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 872

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