Phineus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Phineus)

Life events

• Phineus believed Idaea’s accusation and blinded his stepsons Plexippus and Pandion.(Apollodorus, Library 3.15)
  • With: Plexippus Pandion
  • “She falsely accused her stepsons to Phineus of corrupting her virtue, and Phineus, believing her, blinded them both.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• with Zetes (interaction) “When Zetes and Calais, the sons of Boreas, saw that, they drew their swords and, being winged, pursued them through the air.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.4

• engaged with Andromeda “Phineus, who was a brother of Cepheus, and to whom Andromeda had been first betrothed”
• siblings with Cepheus “Phineus, who was a brother of Cepheus”
• enemies with Perseus “Phineus ... plotted against him; but Perseus discovered the plot”

Apollodorus, Library 3.8

• parent: Lycaon “fifty sons, to wit: Melaeneus, Thesprotus, Helix, Nyctimus, Peucetius, Caucon, Mecisteus, Hopleus, Macareus, Macednus, Horus, Polichus, Acontes, Evaemon, Ancyor, Archebates, Carteron, Aegaeon, Pallas, Eumon, Canethus, Prothous, Linus, Coretho, Maenalus, Teleboas, Physius, Phassus, Phthius, Lycius, Halipherus, Genetor, Bucolion, Socleus, Phineus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.15

• married with Cleopatra “Cleopatra was married to Phineus”
• child: Plexippus “who had by her two sons, Plexippus and Pandion”
• child: Pandion (son of Cleopatra) “who had by her two sons, Plexippus and Pandion”
• married with Idaea “he married Idaea, daughter of Dardanus”

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