Pheres

Also known as: PHE · Family: mythic figures · Role: mortal · First appears: Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 5

Life events

• Alcestis volunteers to die for Admetus after his father refuses the substitution.(Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 1)
  • With: Admetus Alcestis
  • “But having tried and gone through all his friends, his father and his aged mother who bore him, he found not, save his wife, one who was willing to die for him”
• Admetus renounces Pheres’s paternal hearth and bars him from the house.(Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 5)
  • With: Admetus
  • “ye no more come into the same house with me: and if it were necessary for me to renounce by heralds thy paternal hearth, I would renounce it.”

Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 5

• with Apollo (Apollo is credited with securing immortality for a man associated with Pheres' house.) “This did'st thou also in the house of Pheres, Winning the Fates to make a man immortal.”

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 1

• child: Admetus “a pious man, the son of Pheres, whom I delivered from dying by deluding the Fates: but those Goddesses granted me that Admetus should escape the impending death”

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 2

• younger kin: Alcestis “Alas! alas! woe! woe! O son of Pheres, how didst thou fare when thou wert deprived of thy wife? ... And yet thy father and thy mother forsook thee, though they had well arrived at a point of life, in which they might have died, and nobly delivered their son, and died with glory: for thou wert their only one, and there was no hope, when thou wert dead, that they could have other children.”

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 3

• enemies with Admetus “abhorring her indeed that brought me forth, and hating my father”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 2

• younger kin: Eumelus “the charioteer cried out, Eumelus, the grandson of Pheres”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.