Phlias
Family: Phliasians · Role: father of Androdamas · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6
In Book 2, Chapter 6, Phlias is described as the son of Dionysus and the husband of Chthonophyle, who bore his son Androdamas. In Chapter 12, the account identifies Aræthyrea as his mother rather than Chthonophyle, and rejects the Argive tradition that Cisus was his father: “I cannot at all accept the Argive tradition that he was the son of Cisus the son of Temenus”.
Relationship record
Book 2 · Chapter 6
- parent: Dionysus “Phlias the son of Dionysus married her”
- married with Chthonophyle “Phlias the son of Dionysus married her”
- child: Androdamas “afterwards Phlias the son of Dionysus married her, and she had a son Androdamas.”
Book 2 · Chapter 7
- child: Androdamas (Phlias is identified as Androdamas's father.) “The leader of the procession is called Baccheus, this functionary was appointed by Androdamas the son of Phlias”
Book 2 · Chapter 12
- parent: Cisus (This is explicitly identified as a rejected Argive tradition.) “I cannot at all accept the Argive tradition that he was the son of Cisus the son of Temenus”
- parent: Dionysus (The text presents this as the accepted genealogy known to the author.) “for I know that he was called the son of Dionysus, and was said to have been one of those who sailed in the Argo.”
- parent: Aræthyrea “And Aræthyrea was the mother of Phlias and not Chthonophyle, for Chthonophyle was his wife and he had Andromedas by her.”
- married with Chthonophyle “And Aræthyrea was the mother of Phlias and not Chthonophyle, for Chthonophyle was his wife and he had Andromedas by her.”
- child: Andromedas “And Aræthyrea was the mother of Phlias and not Chthonophyle, for Chthonophyle was his wife and he had Andromedas by her.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.