Relief from Giotto's Campanile, depicting Phoroneus as the man who invented law.
In Greek mythology, Phoroneus (/fəˈrɒn.juːs/; Ancient Greek: Φορωνεύς means 'bringer of a price'[1]) was a culture-hero of the Argolid, fire-bringer,[2] law giver,[3] and primordial king of Argos.
^Graves, Robert (1960). The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth, London, England: Penguin Books. pp. s.v. Phoroneus. ISBN 978-0143106715.
associated with Phoroneus, sometimes as his mother, sometimes as his daughter, or as his consort (Kerenyi). According to Hellanicus of Lesbos, Phoroneus had at...
named Melia, called the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus, or another Oceanid named Argia, called the mother of Phoroneus and Io. Io is sometimes confused...
Greeks). Inachos. Phoroneus. Son of Inachos. Apis. Son of Phoroneus. Argos Pelasgos or Argeos. Son of Zeus and Niobe, the daughter of Phoroneus. Argos named...
Nereid Argia ✓+ Mother of Phoroneus, by Inachus, according to Hyginus however according to Apollodorus, the mother of Phoroneus was an Oceanid named Melia...
Argeus, a king of Argos Argus, a son of Zeus and king of Argos after Phoroneus Assaracus, a king of Dardania Asterion, a king of Crete Athamas (Ἀθάμας)...
astronomical observations commenced at Babylon 490 years before the Greek era of Phoroneus, indicating 2243 BC. Stephanus of Byzantium wrote that Babylon was built...
see the throne of Danaus himself, an eternal flame, called the fire of Phoroneus. When Aegyptus and his fifty sons arrived to take the Danaides, Danaus...
the Megarians said that their town owed its origin to Car, the son of Phoroneus, who built the citadel called 'Caria' and the temples of Demeter called...
Biton - Sons of a Hera priestess in Argos Iasus and Pelasgus - Sons of Phoroneus or Triopas Proetus and Acrisius - Rival twins, children of Abas and Aglaea...
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