Pheres
Family: Pherae · Role: father of Admetus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8
🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Pheres) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Pheres)
Life events
- Medea poisons Glauce, kills Mermerus and Pheres, and flees Corinth by dragon-drawn chariot.(Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 Corinth)
- With: Medea Jason Glauce Creon (king of Corinth) Mermerus
- “But she invoked the gods by whom Jason had sworn, and after often upbraiding him with his ingratitude she sent the bride a robe steeped in poison, which when Glauce had put on, she was consumed with fierce fire along with her father, who went to her rescue. But Mermerus and Pheres, the children whom Medea had by Jason, she killed, and having got from the Sun a car drawn by winged dragons she fled on it to Athens.”
Apollodorus, Library 1.8
- child: Admetus “Admetus, son of Pheres”
Apollodorus, Library 1.9
- parent: Cretheus “by whom he had sons, Aeson, Amythaon, and Pheres.”
- child: Lycurgus “Pheres, son of Cretheus, founded Pherae in Thessaly and begat Admetus and Lycurgus.”
- parent: Jason “Mermerus and Pheres, the children whom Medea had by Jason”
- parent: Medea “Mermerus and Pheres, the children whom Medea had by Jason”
Apollodorus, Library 3.13
- child: Periopis “Periopis, daughter of Pheres”
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