Tags: Mythological Figure.
Ampyx (Greek: Ἄμπυξ) has several meanings; in hair care an ampyx is a headband often made of metal. In Greek mythology there were a number of figures with the name Ampyx Amycus or Ampycus (alt. Ampykos). Ampyx or Ampycus was a seer the son of Elatus the Lapith chieftain. He fathered Mopsus with the nymph Chloris. Appears in Orpheus’s Argonautica Pausanias’s Description of Greece Hyginus’s Fabulae. Ampyx or Ampycus was an Ethiopian priest of Demeter (Ceres).