Phyllis (mythology)

Woodcut of Phyllis and Demophon from Heroides, Venice, early 16th century
Not to be confused with Phyllis (river god), the consort of Ereuthalion or the mother of Alcaeus (mythology)

Phyllis (Ancient Greek: Φυλλίς, "leaves, foliage") is a character in Greek mythology, daughter of a Thracian king (according to some, of Sithon;[1][2] most other accounts do not give her father's name at all, but one states he is named either Philander, Ciasus, or Thelus[3]). She marries Demophon, King of Athens and son of Theseus, while he stops in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan War.[4]

  1. ^ Servius on Virgil's Eclogue 5. 10
  2. ^ Ovid in Remedia Amoris, 605 addresses her by the patronymic Sithonis - if indeed it is a patronymic and not an indication of her belonging to the tribe Sithones
  3. ^ Scholia on Aeschines, On the False Embassy, 31
  4. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4, 6. 16