Phytalus

Role: king-hero · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 37

Life events

• Phytalus received Demeter into his house and was given a fig tree.(Book 1 · Chapter 37)
  • With: Demeter
  • “Here they say Phytalus received Demeter into his house, and the goddess gave him in return a fig tree.”
• Theseus was purified after slaying Phytalus’s progeny.(Book 1 · Chapter 37)
  • With: Theseus
  • “Theseus got purified after slaying the progeny of Phytalus.”

Book 1 · Chapter 37

• with Demeter (Phytalus received Demeter into his house.) “Here they say Phytalus received Demeter into his house”
• with Demeter (Demeter gave Phytalus a fig tree.) “and the goddess gave him in return a fig tree.”

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