Agamedes

Agamedes (Greek Ἀγαμήδης ) In Greek mythology, a son of the king of Orchomenus Erginus, famous from the family of Minyae, brother of Trophonios and how this builder.

Both built ( according to Pausanias) the king Hyrieus a treasury, where they pasted a stone so that they take it out easily and so could the treasury, without which door to open steal. Hyrieus put but to get the thieves to track down loops, reflecting Agamedes began. In order not to be recognized by the discovery of his brother as an accomplice, Trophonios cut that from the head and it was swallowed by the earth.

A similar Egyptian legend, the treasure of Rhampsinit regarding what is probably the Greek basis, Herodotus. According to another legend, the brothers built a temple of Apollo at Delphi. For this building them Apollo had promised a reward, which they should get seven days after completion: on this day they died.