Phocus of Boeotia
In
Boeotia
, was father of a beautiful daughter Callirhoe.
Mythology
Callirhoe was wooed by thirty suitors, but Phocus was hesitant to let his daughter marry one of them. At last he announced he would be consulting the
Theban governor Phoedus captured the town, enslaved its citizens and stoned the suitors to death. The town was destroyed, and the land divided between Thisbe and Coroneia. The night before the capture of Hippotae, a voice coming from Mount Helicon had repeatedly been heard at the town; it would utter "I'm here", and the suitors recognized it as that of Phocus. On the day the suitors were executed, Phocus' tomb ran with saffron. Phoedus, on his way back home, received the news that a daughter was born to him, and decided to name her Nicostrate ("Victorious Army").[2]
Notes
- ^ Robert Graves. The Greek Myths (1960)
- ^ Plutarch, Amatoriae Narrationes, 4
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