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Phaeax

Φαίαξ

(Φαίαξ), a celebrated architect of Agrigentum, who flourished about Ol. 75, B. C. 480, and executed several important public works for his native city. Among the most remarkable of these works were the sewers (ὑπόνομοι), which were named, after the architect, (Φαίακες. (Diod. 11.25.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.