Amphiaraus married Eriphyle, sister of King Adrastus, to end a feud over the Argive throne. Their sons Alcmaeon and Amphilochus both fought with the Epigoni, and Alcmaeon later killed Eriphyle to avenge his father's death.
Oicles was the father of Amphiaraus. Through Oicles, Amphiaraus inherited his descent from the seer Melampus.
Amphiaraus and Adrastus resolved their feud over the Argive throne through a pact, with Eriphyle as arbiter. They later marched together as champions of the Seven against Thebes.
Capaneus and Amphiaraus marched together as champions of the Seven against Thebes, though the seer had foreseen the expedition's doom and Capaneus's death by divine lightning.
Hippomedon and Amphiaraus served together among the Seven against Thebes. The seer Amphiaraus had foreseen the doom of all the champions, including Hippomedon.
Amphiaraus fought alongside Tydeus as fellow champions of the Seven against Thebes, though Amphiaraus disapproved of Tydeus's savage nature and his cannibalism of Melanippus's brain.
Amphiaraus condemned Tydeus's savagery when Tydeus ate the brains of the fallen Theban Melanippus. According to Pindar, Athena had been about to grant Tydeus immortality but withdrew in disgust, and Amphiaraus witnessed the act.
Peleus and Amphiaraus both sailed as Argonauts aboard the Argo on the quest for the Golden Fleece, joining heroes like Heracles, Orpheus, and Jason in the generation before the Trojan War.
The Seven against Thebes were seven champion warriors — Adrastus, Polynices, Tydeus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, and Amphiaraus — who marched from Argos to restore Polynices to the Theban throne. All but Adrastus perished in the siege.
Amphilochus inherited his prophetic gift from his father Amphiaraus, continuing the seer lineage descended from Melampus. Like his father, he received an oracular cult after death.
Eriphyle betrayed Amphiaraus by accepting the Necklace of Harmonia from Polynices and using her authority to force her husband to join the doomed expedition against Thebes.
Amphiaraus was a descendant of Melampus through the Melampodidae seer dynasty. He inherited Melampus's prophetic gift, becoming the greatest seer of the generation that marched against Thebes.
The Necklace of Harmonia was used to bribe Eriphyle into betraying Amphiaraus, compelling him to join the Seven against Thebes and sealing his fate.
Polynices bribed Eriphyle with the Necklace of Harmonia to compel Amphiaraus to join the Seven against Thebes, despite the seer's foreknowledge of the expedition's doom.
Amphiaraus was swallowed into the earth near Thebes during the siege of the Seven against Thebes. He later became an oracular hero venerated in the region.
Zeus split the earth with a thunderbolt to swallow Amphiaraus alive near Thebes, saving him from being struck down by the Theban warrior Periclymenus and granting him a form of immortality.
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