Phocus
Phocus (/ˈfoʊkəs/; Ancient Greek: Φῶκος means "seal"[1]) was the name of the eponymous hero of Phocis in Greek mythology.[2] Ancient sources relate of more than one figure of this name, and of these at least two are explicitly said to have had Phocis named after them.
- Phocus, the son of Poseidon and Pronoe, possible eponym of Phocis according to a scholiast on the Iliad.[3]
- Phocus, son of Aeacus and Psamathe, also possible eponym of Phocis according to a scholiast on the Iliad.[4][3]
- Phocus, son of Ornytion.[5]
- Phocus, father of Callirhoe.[6]
- Phocus, father of Manthea who consorted with Zeus and became the mother of Arctos by the god.[7]
- Phocus and Priasus, two sons of Caeneus, were counted among the Argonauts.[8]
- Phocus the builder, son of Danaus (?), is mentioned by Hyginus among the Achaeans against Troy, but is otherwise unknown.[9] Epeius, builder of the Trojan Horse, was a grandson of Phocus the son of Aeacus.
Phocus is also the name of the son of Phocion.
Notes
- Robert Graves. The Greek Myths (1960)
- Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Phōkis
- Scholia on Iliad, 2. 517
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.6
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.4.3
- Plutarch, Amatoriae Narrationes, 4
- Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21-23
- Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
- Hyginus, Fabulae 97
References
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- R. Scott Smith, Stephen Trzaskoma. Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2007. 64–65. Print.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- W. Smith, A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology Perseus database
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