Phialus

Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Bucolion · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 3

In Book 8, Chapter 3, Phialia was named after Phialus, son of Bucolion. In Chapter 5, Bucolion was named as king before Phialus, and Simus as Phialus’s son; during Simus’s reign, the old statue of Black Demeter belonging to the people of Phigalia was destroyed by fire.

Relationship record

Life events

• The town was renamed Phialia after Phialus.(Book 8 · Chapter 39 · 📍 Phigalia)
  • With: Bucolion
  • “the name of the town got changed into Phialia from Phialus the son of Bucolion”

Book 8 · Chapter 3

• parent: Bucolion “the former Phialia from Phialus the son of Bucolion”

Book 8 · Chapter 5

• with Bucolion (interaction) “The next king was Bucolion, the next Phialus”
• child: Simus “And during the reign of Simus, the son of Phialus, the old statue of Black Demeter that belonged to the people of Phigalia was destroyed by fire.”

Book 8 · Chapter 39

• parent: Bucolion (Bucolion is identified as Phialus's father.) “the name of the town got changed into Phialia from Phialus the son of Bucolion,”

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