Phorbas

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::summary Name of several characters in Greek mythology ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Oedipus_Phorbas_Chaudet_Louvre_N15538.jpg" caption="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 (; Ancient Greek: Φόρβας Phórbās, gen. Φόρβαντος Phórbantos means 'giving pasture'), or Phorbaceus , may refer to: NOTOC

• Phorbas, son of Lapithes and Orsinome, and a brother of Periphas.
• Phorbas, son of Triopas and Hiscilla, daughter of Myrmidon.
• Phorbas, king of Argos, father of a different Triopas who succeeded him as king. Triopas was the brother of Arestor
• Phorbas, a shepherd of King Laius, who found the infant Oedipus on the hillside and ensured his survival to fulfill his destiny. A number of sculptures, ranging from the 14th to the 19th century, memorialize Phorbas' rescue of Oedipus. He might be the same as Phorbas, attendant of Antigone.
• Phorbas, listed as a king or archon of Athens
• Phorbas of Lesbos, father of Diomede
• Phorbas of Troy, who was favored and made rich by Hermes. He had a son Ilioneus, who was killed by Peneleos.
• Phorbas, son of Metion of Syene, who fought on Phineus' side against Perseus
• Phorbas of Acarnania, son of Poseidon, who went to Eleusis together with Eumolpus to fight against Erechtheus, and was killed by the opponent.
• Phorbas, one of the twelve younger Panes
• Phorbas, son of Helios and father of Ambracia (eponym of the city of Ambracia). Ambracia could also have been daughter of Augeas, granddaughter of Phorbas of Thessaly.
• Phorbas, who is called father of Tiresias by the Cretans
• Phorbas, charioteer of Theseus
• Phorbas, father of Dexithea who, according to one version, was the mother of Romulus and Remus by Aeneas
• Phorbas, suitor of Megara, mother of Ixion in one source. Together with another suitor, Polymelos, they slain Megara and, in vengeance, were murdered by the latter’s son.

Notes

References

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• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
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• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragedies. Translated by Miller, Frank Justus. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. Online version at theio.com.
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Rudolf Peiper. Gustav Richter. Leipzig. Teubner. 1921. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• 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.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

References

1. [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus). Apollodorus]], 2.5.5
2. [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#58.5 5.58.5]
3. (2022-12-27). "Arestor". Wikipedia.
4. [[Seneca the Younger]], ''Oedipus'' 840 ff.
5. [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem). Thebaid]]'' 7.253
6. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], 6.19.13
7. [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 9.665; [[Dictys Cretensis]], [https://topostext.org/work/152#2.16 2.16]
8. Homer, ''Iliad'' 14.489 ff.; [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 5.842
9. [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 5.74
10. [[Eustathius of Thessalonica. Eustathius]] on Homer, p. 1156; [[Scholia]] on Homer, ''Iliad'' 18.483 ff.; Scholia on [[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenician Women]]'' 854; [[Suda]], s.v. ''Phorbanteion''
11. [[Nonnus]], 14.94 ff.
12. [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''Ambrakia'', ''Dexamenai''
13. [[Ptolemy Hephaestion]], ''New History'' 1
14. [[Hesychius of Alexandria]], s.v. ''Phorbas''
15. {{cite Plutarch. Romulus. 2
16. ''[[Greek Anthology]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/532#3.12 3.12] [[iarchive:greekanthology01pato/page/100/mode/1up. (Gk text)]]

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