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Phylas

In Greek mythology, the name Phylas may refer to:Phylas, king of Ephyra, a descendant of Dryopes. Heracles led a war against him and killed him. Phylas had two daughters, Meda and Astyoche; Heracles consorted with both and fathered Antiochus with the former, and Tlepolemus with the latter. Phylas, son of Antiochus, thus a great-grandson of the precedent. With Leipephilene, daughter of Iolaus and Megara, he became father of Hippotes and Thero. Phylas, father of Polymele; he raised Eudoros, his daughter's son by Hermes.

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In Greek mythology, the name Phylas (Ancient Greek: Φύλας, gen. Φύλαντος) may refer to:

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  1. Apollodorus, 2.7.6; Pausanias, 4.34.9
  2. Diodorus Siculus, 4.37.1; Pausanias, 1.5.2 & 10.10.1
  3. Apollodorus, 2.7.6
  4. Apollodorus, 2.8.3
  5. Pausanias, 9.40.6 (quoting Hesiod's Megalai Ehoiai)
  6. Homer, Iliad 16.180-195
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