Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Amphissa (Ἄμφισσα) was a daughter of Macareus a lover of Apollo and the eponym of the city Amphissa in Ozolian Locris. One may assume that Amphissa was the child conceived in the incestuous relationship between Macareus and his sister Canace but it appears from Ovid that the child was male and that it was torn apart by wild beasts upon being exposed by Aeolus.Amphissa is likely the same as Isse Macareïs (i. e.