Pharis

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Pharis ( Greek  Φᾶρις ) or Phares (Greek Φάρης ) is a person of Greek mythology .

Pharis is the son of the god Hermes and the Danaide Phylodameia and the father of Telegone , the mother of Orsilochus . Pausanias names him as the eponymous founder of the Messenian city ​​of Pharai , although he speculates elsewhere whether Pharis was also an oikist of the city of Pharai in the Achaia .

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  1. a b Pausanias 4, 30, 2.
  2. a b Pausanias 7, 22, 5.