Phylas

In Greek mythology, the name Phylas^{[pronunciation?]} (Ancient Greek: Φύλας, gen. Φύλαντος) may refer to:

• Phylas, king of Ephyra, a descendant of Dryopes. Heracles led a war against him and killed him.^[1] Phylas had two daughters, Meda and Astyoche; Heracles consorted with both and fathered Antiochus with the former,^[2] and Tlepolemus with the latter.^[3]
• Phylas, son of Antiochus, thus a great-grandson of the precedent. With Leipephilene, daughter of Iolaus and Megara, he became father of Hippotes^[4] and Thero.^[5]
• Phylas, father of Polymele; he raised Eudoros, his daughter's son by Hermes.^[6]

Notes

1. Apollodorus, 2.7.6; Pausanias, 4.34.9
2. Diodorus Siculus, 4.37.1; Pausanias, 1.5.2 & 10.10.1
3. Apollodorus, 2.7.6
4. Apollodorus, 2.8.3
5. Pausanias, 9.40.6 (quoting Hesiod's Megalai Ehoiai)
6. Homer, Iliad 16.180-195

References

• 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site

• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.