In a later version of the story, Phoenix was falsely accused by Amyntor's mistress and was blinded by his father, but Chiron restored his sight.
Strabo reports a genealogy for Amyntor which made him the grandson of Cercaphus, the son of Aeolus, and the brother of Euaemon, the father of Eurypylus.
According to the Iliad, Amyntor, the son of Ormenus, was a king in Hellas,[2] and the father of Phoenix, who became a tutor of Achilles, whom he accompanied to the Trojan War.
[3] Also according to the Iliad, the thief Autolycus broke into Amyntor's house in Eleon and stole a helmet, which Meriones gave to Odysseus during the Trojan War.
Callimachus, mentions the sons of Ormenus inviting Erysichthon to games associated with the cult of Athena at Itone in Thessaly,[8] while Lycophron refers to Amyntor blinding Phoenix.