Pheres (son of Cretheus)

Pheres ( ancient Greek Φέρης ) was in Greek mythology one of the sons of Tire with King Kretheus of Iolkos . His brothers were Aison and Amythaon .

After the death of Kreutheus, his half-brother Pelias , son of Tyro with Poseidon , tried to usurp the rule over all of Thessaly , lured the rightful successor Aison into a cave below Iolkos and banished Pheres as well as his own twin brother Neleus to Messenia , where he was both settled in Pylos (see also Nestor's palace ) with their mother's cousin, King Aphareus . Later Pheres founded the city of Pherai in Thessaly, named after him, and ruled as its king.

Pheres had the following children with his wife Periclymene:

Admetus , who was later to woo Alcestis , the daughter of Pelias
Lykurgos, king of Nemea
Eidomene , wife of Amythaon
Periopis, mother of Patroclus from Menoitius

Eriopis , wife of Oileus

Antigone

Antianeira , wife of Abas and of Apollon mother of Idmon

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Pheres 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Third volume, second section. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 2297 ( archive.org ).
^ Adolf Klügmann : Antianeira 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1886, Sp. 370 ( archive.org ).

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Pheres 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Third volume, second section. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 2297 ( archive.org ).

[2] Adolf Klügmann : Antianeira 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1886, Sp. 370 ( archive.org ).