Phalanthus

Family: Greek mythology · Role: mythic founder · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 35

Phalanthus founded a town on Mount Phalanthum, described as the son of Agelaus and grandson of Stymphelus. Later, after understanding the oracle, he took Tarentum from the barbarians on the following night. His wife, Æthra, had accompanied him from home.

Relationship record

Life events

• Phalanthus founded a town on Mount Phalanthum.(Book 8 · Chapter 35 · 📍 Phalanthum)
  • With: Agelaus Stymphelus
  • “the mountain Phalanthum, on which are ruins of a town of the same name, founded they say by Phalanthus, the son of Agelaus, and grandson of Stymphelus.”
• Phalanthus took Tarentum from the barbarians after understanding the oracle.(Book 10 · Chapter 10 · 📍 Tarentum)
  • “and so on the following night he took from the barbarians Tarentum, the greatest and most prosperous of their maritime cities.”

Book 8 · Chapter 35

• parent: Agelaus (Agelaus was Phalanthus's father.) “founded they say by Phalanthus, the son of Agelaus, and grandson of Stymphelus.”
• with Stymphelus (Stymphelus was Phalanthus's grandfather.) “founded they say by Phalanthus, the son of Agelaus, and grandson of Stymphelus.”
• elder kin: Stymphelus (Stymphelus was Phalanthus's grandfather.) “founded they say by Phalanthus, the son of Agelaus, and grandson of Stymphelus.”

Book 10 · Chapter 10

• married with Æthra “his wife, who had accompanied him from home”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.