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In
Greek mythology , Phalias (
Ancient Greek : Φαλίας) was the
Thespian son of
Heracles and
Heliconis ,
[1] daughter of King
Thespius of
Thespiae .
[2]
Mythology
Phalias and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who were impregnated by Heracles in one night,
[3] for a week
[4] or in the course of 50 days
[5] while hunting for the
Cithaeronian lion .
[6] Later on, the hero sent a message to Thespius to keep seven of these sons and send three of them in
Thebes while the remaining forty, joined by
Iolaus , were dispatched to the island of
Sardinia to found a colony.
[7]
Notes
^
Apollodorus , 2.7.8
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10
^
Pausanias , Graeciae Descriptio 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
^
Athenaeus ,
Deipnosophistae 13.4 with
Herodorus as the authority;
Diodorus Siculus ,
Bibliotheca historica 4.29.3,
f.n. 51
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.29.3;
Tzetzes , Chiliades
2.224
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9–10
^ Apollodorus, 2.7.6
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