Phylas
Role: father of Meda · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5
In Book 1, Chapter 5, Phylas is named as the father of Meda. In Book 2, Chapter 4, Aletes is described as the son of Hippotas, who is in turn the son of Phylas; the same chapter describes Phylas as the son of Antiochus (son of Hercules). In Book 3, Chapter 13, Hippotes is also named as Phylas’s son.
By Book 9, Chapter 40, Thero is described as the daughter of Phylas, and Apollo as her son’s father. The chapter also says that Phylas married Lipephile, daughter of Iolaus.
Relationship record
Book 1 · Chapter 5
- child: Meda “Meda the daughter of Phylas”
Book 2 · Chapter 4
- child: Hippotas “Aletes the son of Hippotas, (the son of Phylas”
- parent: Antiochus (son of Hercules) “the son of Phylas, the son of Antiochus”
Book 3 · Chapter 13
- child: Hippotes “Hippotes the son of Phylas”
Book 9 · Chapter 40
- child: Thero “who they say was the son of Apollo by Thero the daughter of Phylas.”
- married with Lipephile “Phylas married Lipephile the daughter of the famous Iolaus, who resembled in appearance the goddesses of Olympus.”
Book 10 · Chapter 10
- child: Meda “Meda the daughter of Phylas”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.