Pheros

Family: Egyptian · Role: son and successor of Sesostris · First appears: Book 2 · §108–114

Life events

Pheros regained his sight after washing his eyes with a woman's water.(Book 2 · §108–114)
- “and in the eleventh year there came to him an oracle from the city of Buto saying that the time of his punishment had expired, and that he should see again if he washed his eyes with the water of a woman who had accompanied with her own husband only and had not knowledge of other men;”
Pheros burned the women he had tested and the city where he gathered them.(Book 2 · §108–114 · 📍 Erythrabolos)
- “he gathered together all the women of whom he had made trial, excepting her by whose means he had regained his sight, to one city which now is named Erythrabolos, and having gathered them to this he consumed them all by fire, as well as the city itself;”
Pheros made the woman who restored his sight his wife.(Book 2 · §108–114)
- “but as for her by whose means he had regained his sight, he had her himself to wife.”

parent: Sesostris “Now after Sesostris had brought his life to an end, his son Pheros, they told me, received in succession the kingdom”
with Proteus (Proteus succeeded Pheros to the throne.) “After him, they said, there succeeded to the throne a man of Memphis, whose name in the tongue of the Hellenes was Proteus;”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.