# Phocus

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Several figures in Greek mythology

**Phocus** ([/ˈfoʊkəs/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English); [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Φῶκος means "[seal](/source/Pinniped)")[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] was the name of the [eponymous](/source/Eponym) hero of [Phocis](/source/Phocis) in [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology).[1] 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, the son of [Poseidon](/source/Poseidon) and [Pronoe](/source/Pronoe), possible eponym of Phocis according to a [scholiast](/source/Scholia) on the *[Iliad](/source/Iliad)*.[2]

- [Phocus](/source/Phocus_(son_of_Aeacus)), son of [Aeacus](/source/Aeacus) and [Psamathe](/source/Psamathe_(Nereid)),[3] also possible eponym of Phocis according to a scholiast on the *Iliad*.[2] [Epeius](/source/Epeius), builder of the [Trojan Horse](/source/Trojan_Horse), was a grandson of this Phocus.

- [Phocus](/source/Phocus_(son_of_Ornytion)), son of [Ornytion](/source/Ornytion).[4]

- [Phocus](/source/Phocus_of_Boeotia), father of [Callirhoe](/source/Callirhoe_(mythology)).[5]

- Phocus, father of Manthea (seems to be a variation of the [Callisto](/source/Callisto_(mythology)) story) who consorted with [Zeus](/source/Zeus) (who was in the form of a bear) and became the mother of Arctos (seems to be variation of the character of [Arcas](/source/Arcas)) by the god according to [clementine literature](/source/Clementine_literature), Recognitions. The figure is mentioned by the literature to criticize the evils of [polytheism](/source/Polytheism) in the views of [Christianity](/source/Christianity), specifically focusing on [adulteries](/source/Adultery) of Zeus.[6]

- Phocus and [Priasus](/source/Priasus), two sons of [Caeneus](/source/Caeneus), were counted among the [Argonauts](/source/Argonauts).[7]

- Phocus the builder, son of [Danaus](/source/Danaus), is mentioned by Hyginus among the [Achaeans](/source/Achaeans_(Homer)) against [Troy](/source/Troy), but is otherwise unknown.[8]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium) s. v. *Phōkis*

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_2-1) [Scholia](/source/Scholia) on [Homer](/source/Homer), *[Iliad](/source/Iliad)* 2.517

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Apollodorus_3-0)** [Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), [3.12.6](http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.12.6); March, [s.v. Phocus, p. 628](https://archive.org/details/March.Jenny_Cassells.Dictionary.of.Classical.Mythology/page/628/mode/2up?view=theater).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), [2.4.3](http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Plutarch](/source/Plutarch), *Amatoriae Narrationes* 4

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Pseudo-Clement](/source/Pseudo-Clement), *[Recognitions](/source/Clementine_Recognitions)* 10.21-23

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Hyginus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus), *Fabulae* 14

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Hyginus, *Fabulae* 97

## References

- [Pseudo-Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(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.](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022) [Greek text available from the same website](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021).

- [Hyginus](/source/Fabulae), *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.](https://topostext.org/work/206)

- March, Jenny, *Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology*, Casell & Co, 2001. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-304-35788-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-304-35788-X). [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/stream/March.Jenny_Cassells.Dictionary.of.Classical.Mythology#page/n0/mode/2up).

- [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), *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](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.1.1)

- Pausanias, *Graeciae Descriptio.* *3 vols*. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159).

- 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](/source/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.](https://topostext.org/work/241)

- [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology)*, London (1873). [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0104).

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