Phalæcus

Family: Phocians · Role: chief ruler at Phocis · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 2

Life events

• Phalæcus inherited chief power in Phocis but was deposed for taking sacred money.(Book 10 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Phocis)
  • “And after the death of Phayllus the chief power at Phocis devolved upon his son Phalæcus, but he was deposed because he helped himself privately to the sacred money.”
• Phalæcus lost most of his army and his life while besieging Cydonia.(Book 10 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Athene)
  • “and besieged Cydonia, because the inhabitants would not give him the money he demanded, and in the siege lost most of his army and his own life.”

Book 10 · Chapter 2

• parent: Phayllus (Phayllus is the father of Phalæcus.) “And after the death of Phayllus the chief power at Phocis devolved upon his son Phalæcus”

Also listed in Phocians — Minor Figures

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