Phylée

In the Greek Mythology, Phylée or Phyléos , wire of Augias and Épicaste, is king of Élis.

Myth

After having finished the cleaning of the stables of Augias (the fifth of its Twelve work), Héraclès is presented to Augias and its due claims to him. In spite of the protests of Phylée, Augias refuses to hold its word: it drives out Héraclès and its son.

Phylée is exiled in the islands Échines and is established with Doulichion. But following the war that Héraclès carries out against Augias, and with the catch of Elect, Héraclès points out Phylée, that it places on the throne in the place of his father.

Of his first wife Eustyoché, it has a son Mégès. It remarie then with Timandra. Ovide the account by the hunters of the Wild boar of Calydon.

Sources

  • (II, 5,3; II, 7,2).

  • (frg. 67).
  • (IV).
  • (II, 637).
  • (XLVII).
  • (VIII, 299 and suiv.).

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