[Ampère, Jean Jacques], son of the preceding; eminent as a littérateur, and a historian and critic of literature; attained to the rank of a member of the French Academy (1800-1864).
[Amphic`tyonic Council], a council consisting of representatives from several confederate States of ancient Greece, twelve in number at length, two from each, that met twice a year, sitting alternately at Thermopylæ and Delphi, to settle any differences that might arise between them, the decisions of which were several times enforced by arms, and gave rise to what were called sacred wars, of which there were three; it was originally instituted for the conservation of religious interests.
[Amphi`on], a son of Zeus and Antiope, who is said to have invented the lyre, and built the walls of Thebes by the sound of it, a feat often alluded to as an instance of the miraculous power of music.
[Amphisbæna], a genus of limbless lizards; a serpent fabled to have two heads and to be able to move backward or forward.
[Am`phitrite], a daughter of Oceanus or Nereus, the wife of Neptune, mother of Triton, and goddess of the sea.
[Amphit`ryon], the king of Tiryns, and husband of Alcmene, who became by him the mother of Iphicles, and by Zeus the mother of Hercules.
[Amphitryon the True], the real host, the man who provides the feast, as Zeus proved himself to the household to be when he visited Alcmene.
[Am`ran range], pronounced the "scientific frontier" of India towards Afghanistan.
[Amrit`sar] (136), a sacred city of the Sikhs in the Punjab, and a great centre of trade, 32 m. E. of Lahore; is second to Delhi in Northern India; manufactures cashmere shawls.