Physcus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Physcus (Ancient Greek: Φύσκος, romanized: Physkos, lit. 'big-bellied', 'paunchy' or 'potbellied') or Physcius, was a king of Locris[1] and son of Amphictyon and Chthonopatra and father of Locrus whom Locrians were named but initially they were called Physcians after Physcus.[2] In some accounts, however, he was called the grandson of Amphictyon through Aetolus, his predecessor to the throne.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Pseudo-Scymnus, 587 ff.
- ↑ Eustathius ad Iliad p. 277; Pseudo-Scymnus, 587 ff.; Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 15
- ↑ Pseudo-Scymnus, 587 ff.; Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Physkos
References
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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.