Phalces

A son of Temenus, and father of Rhegnidas, was one of the Heraclidae. He took possession of the government of Sicyon, and there founded the temple of Hera Prodomia.

He is said to have killed his father and his sister Hyrnetho.1

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 29.3.

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 6.4, 11.2, 13.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography viii, p. 389.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.