Phytalus

An Eleusinian hero, who is said to have kindly received Demeter on her wanderings, and was rewarded by the goddess with a fig-tree.1 To him the noble Athenian family of the Phytalidae traced their origin.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 37.2.
  2. Plutarch. Theseus, 12, 22.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

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