Phylas

In Greek mythology, the name Phylas (Φύλας, gen. Φύλαντος) may refer to:

• Phylas, king of Ephyra, a descendant of Dryopes. Heracles led a war against him and killed him.^[1][2] Phylas had two daughters, Meda and Astyoche; Heracles consorted with both and fathered Antiochus with the former,^[3][4] and Tlepolemus with the latter.^[1]
• Phylas, son of Antiochus, thus a great-grandson of the precedent. With Leipephilene, daughter of Iolaus, and Megara, he became father of Hippotes^[5] and Thero.^[6]
• Phylas, father of Polymele; he raised Eudorus, his daughter's son by Hermes.^[7]

References

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 7. 6
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4. 36. 9
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 5. 2 = 10. 10. 1
4. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 37. 1
5. Bibliotheca 2. 8. 3
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 40. 6 (quoting Hesiod's Megalai Ehoiai)
7. Homer, Iliad, 16. 180-195