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Phocus

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Phocus (/ˈfkəs/; Ancient Greek: Φῶκος means "seal"[1]) was the name of the eponymous hero of Phocis in Greek mythology.[2] Ancient sources relate of more than one figure of this name, and of these at least two are explicitly said to have had Phocis named after them.

Phocus is also the name of the son of Phocion.

Notes

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  1. ^ Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths (1960).
  2. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Phōkis
  3. ^ a b Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.517
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.6; March, s.v. Phocus, p. 628.
  5. ^ Pausanias, 2.4.3.
  6. ^ Plutarch, Amatoriae Narrationes 4
  7. ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21-23
  8. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  9. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97

References

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  • Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • March, Jenny, Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Casell & Co, 2001. ISBN 0-304-35788-X. Internet Archive.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • R. Scott Smith, Stephen Trzaskoma. Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2007. 64–65. Print.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.