Phorbas

Family: unknown · Role: wooer · First appears: Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1

In the Homeric Hymn III, Part 1, Phorbas is described as sprung from Triops and as a wooer of the daughter of Azan, alongside Apollo and other named rivals. The hymn also says, “you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”

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Life events

• Apollo is described as wooing the daughter of Azan alongside several named rivals.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • With: Apollo the daughter of Azan (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) Ischys Elatius Triops Ereutheus Leucippus the wife of Leucippus (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”

Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1

• parent: Triops “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”
• admired: the daughter of Azan (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus....”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.