(), a chief of the Eleans, and son of
Onesimachus or of Acetor. (Hyg. Fab. 97; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 303.) According to Hyginus, Amarynceus
himself joined the expedition against Troy with nineteen ships. Homer, on the other hand, only
mentions his son Diores (Amarynceides) as partaking in the Trojan war. (Il. 2.622. 4.517.) When Amarynceus died, his sons celebrated
funeral games in his honour, in which Nestor, as he himself relates (Il. 23.629, &c.), took part. According to Pausanias (v. 1.8) Amarynceus had been
of great service to Augeas against Heracles, in return for which Augeas shared his throne with
him.