Bucolion

Family: Arcadians · Role: father of Phialus · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 3

Bucolion was the father of Phialus, after whom the town was renamed Phialia. In Book 8, Chapter 5, Bucolion is named as king after Olæas, with Phialus next in the succession.

Relationship record

Life events

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

Book 8 · Chapter 3

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

Book 8 · Chapter 5

• with Phialus (interaction) “The next king was Bucolion, the next Phialus”
• with Olæas (Bucolion followed Olæas as king.) “The next king was Bucolion”

Book 8 · Chapter 39

• child: Phialus (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.