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AGAMEDES

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 363 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGAMEDES , in
Greek
  legend, son of Erginus, king of
Orchomenus
  in Boeotia. He is always associated with his brother Trophonius as a wonderful architect, the constructor of under-ground shrines and grottos for the reception of hidden treasure. When building a treasureshouse' for Hyrieus, the
brothers
  fixed one of the stones in the
wall
  so that they could remove it whenever they pleased, and from time to time carried off some of the treasure. Hyrieus thereupon set a
trap
  in which Agamedes was caught; Trophonius, to prevent discovery, cut off his brother's head and fled with it. He was pursued by Hyrieus, and swallowed up by the earth in the grove of Lebadeia. On this spot was the oracle of Trophonius in an underground cave; those who wished to consult it first offered the sacrifice of a ram and called upon the name of Agamedes. A similar story is toad of Rhampsinitus by
Herodotus
  (ii. 121). According to
Pindar
  (apud
Plutarch
 ), the
brothers
  built the temple of Apollo at Delphi; when they asked for a reward, the god promised them one in seven days; on the seventh day they died.
Pausanias ix. 37;
Plutarch
 , Consolatio ad Apollonium, 14; Cicero, Tusc. Disp. i. 47.


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