This satyr play almost certainly told the story of the Argonauts and their encounter with Amycus, an inhospitable king in Bithynia, who would challenge travellers to a boxing match before allowing them to draw water for their ships, and invariably killed his opponents.[1] However, upon landing, Polydeuces promptly challenged and defeated the king, and depending on the author, the Argonaut then either killed Amycos [2] or made him swear an oath on his life that he would no longer “maltreat strangers”.[3][4][5] Jebb believes another ending, which was related by Periander,[6] wherein Amycos was put in chains, would have been more suitable for a satyr play; unfortunately, it is impossible to say for certain which of these endings was used by Sophocles [7]
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Unfortunately, no date more precise than the 5th century BCE can as yet be reliably ascribed to the writing or production of the play.
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