Phorbas

The child Œdipus brought back to life by the shepherd Phorbas, who took him off the tree. Sculpture by Charles Dupaty.

In Greek mythology, Phorbas (Greek: Φόρβας, gen. Φόρβαντος) or Phorbaceus may refer to:

The name Phorbas is not to be confused with Phorbus (Φόρβος), which refers to the father of Pronoe (wife of Aetolus)[30]

See also

References

  1. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 69. 2
  2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 1. 11
  3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 5. 5
  4. Eustathius on Homer, p. 303
  5. Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 23. 660
  6. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9. 414 & 12. 322
  7. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 58. 5
  8. Hyginus, Poetical Astronomy, 2. 14
  9. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 7. 26. 12
  10. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 16. 1
  11. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1116: on Orestes, 932
  12. Eusebius, Chronicle, 1. p. 187
  13. Seneca the Younger, Oedipus, 840 ff
  14. Statius, Thebaid, 7. 253
  15. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6. 19. 13
  16. Homer, Iliad, 9. 665
  17. Dictys Cretensis, 2. 16
  18. Homer, Iliad, 14. 489 ff
  19. Virgil, Aeneid, 5. 842
  20. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5. 74
  21. Suda s. v. Phorbanteion
  22. Eustathius on Homer, p. 1156
  23. Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 18. 483 ff
  24. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 854
  25. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 14. 94 ff
  26. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. vv. Ambrakia, Dexamenai
  27. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History, 1
  28. Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Phorbas
  29. Plutarch, Romulus, 2. 2
  30. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 7. 7

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Regnal titles
Preceded by
Criasus
King of Argos Succeeded by
Triopas
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