Phocus (son of Ornytion)

Also known as: Phocus · Family: Æacidæ · Role: person · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 4

Life events

Phocus colonized Tithorea.(Book 2 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Tithorea)
- “And he colonized Tithorea in what is now called Phocis”
Phocus cured Antiope and made her his wife.(Book 9 · Chapter 17)
- With: Antiope
- “and that Phocus the son of Ornytion the son of Sisyphus fell in with her and cured her, and made her his wife.”
Antiope and Phocus were buried together.(Book 9 · Chapter 17)
- With: Antiope
- “And certainly Antiope and Phocus are buried together.”
The region around Tithorea and Delphi takes its name from Phocus, son of Ornytion.(Book 10 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Phocis)
- “That part of Phocis which is in the neighbourhood of Tithorea and Delphi took its name in very ancient times from the Corinthian Phocus, the son of Ornytion.”
A hero-chapel was built for the hero-founder some identified as Phocus.(Book 10 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Tronis)
- “a hero-chapel was built to their hero-founder, who some say was Xanthippus, who won great fame in war, others Phocus”
Antiope married Phocus, whom she passionately loved.(Book 10 · Chapter 32 · 📍 Tithorea)
- With: Antiope
- “how she married Phocus the son of Ornytion, of whom she was passionately fond”
Antiope and Phocus were buried together.(Book 10 · Chapter 32 · 📍 Tithorea)
- With: Antiope
- “and how they were buried together.”

parent: Ornytion “And Phocus was the son of Ornytion, though nominally the son of Poseidon.”
parent: Poseidon “And Phocus was the son of Ornytion, though nominally the son of Poseidon.”
siblings with Thoas “And Phocus was the son of Ornytion, though nominally the son of Poseidon. And he colonized Tithorea in what is now called Phocis, but Thoas, the younger son of Ornytion, remained at Corinth.”

with Ornytion (Phocus is identified as being of Ornytion's family.) “Phocus of the family of Ornytion first came to it”

married with Antiope “Phocus the son of Ornytion the son of Sisyphus fell in with her and cured her, and made her his wife.”
parent: Ornytion “Phocus the son of Ornytion the son of Sisyphus”
with Antiope (Phocus cured Antiope.) “They say Antiope went mad and wandered over all Greece out of her mind, and that Phocus the son of Ornytion the son of Sisyphus fell in with her and cured her, and made her his wife.”
with Antiope (They are buried together.) “And certainly Antiope and Phocus are buried together.”

parent: Ornytion “others Phocus (the son of Ornytion and grandson of Sisyphus).”
with Sisyphus (Sisyphus was Phocus's grandfather.) “others Phocus (the son of Ornytion and grandson of Sisyphus).”
with Xanthippus (hero-founder at Tronis) (Xanthippus and Phocus are alternative identifications of the hero-founder.) “where a hero-chapel was built to their hero-founder, who some say was Xanthippus, who won great fame in war, others Phocus (the son of Ornytion and grandson of Sisyphus).”

married with Antiope “how she married Phocus the son of Ornytion, of whom she was passionately fond, and how they were buried together.”
admirer: Antiope (Antiope was passionately fond of Phocus.) “how she married Phocus the son of Ornytion, of whom she was passionately fond, and how they were buried together.”
parent: Ornytion “Phocus the son of Ornytion”

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