(), one of the daughters of Danaus and Elephantis.
When Danaus arrived in Argos, the country, according to the wish of Poseidon, who was
indignant at Inachus, was suffering from a drought, and Danaus sent out Amymone to fetch
water. Meeting a stag, she shot at it, but hit a sleeping satyr, who rose and pursued her.
Poseidon appeared, and rescued the maiden from the satyr, but appropriated her to himself, and
then shewed her the wells at Lerna. (Apollod. 2.1.4.)
According to another form of the tradition, Amymone fell asleep on her expedition in search of
water, and was surprised by a satyr. She invoked Poseidon, who appeared and cast his trident
at the satyr, which however struck into a rock, so that the Satyr escaped. Poseidon, after
ravishing the maiden, bade her draw the trident from the rock, from which a threefold spring
gushed forth immediately, which was called after her the well of Amymone. Her son by Poseidon
was called Nauplius. (Hygin.Pab. 169; Lucian, Dial.
Marin. 6; Paus. 2.37.1.) The story of Amymole was the
subject of one of the satyric dramas of Aeschylus, and is represented upon a vase which was
discovered at Naples in 1790. (Böttiger, Amalthea, ii. p. 275.)