Phaestus
Φᾶιστος
(Φᾶιστος), a son of Rhopalus, and grandson of Heracles, was king of Sicyon, from whence he emigrated to Crete. (Paus. 2.6.3.) He is said to have established at Sicyon the custom of worshipping Heracles as a god, since before he had only been honoured as a hero, (Paus. 2.10. § l; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 313.) A second Phaestus wis a son of Borus, of Tarne, in Maeonia, and was slain by Idomeneus at Troy (Hom. Il. 5.431.)
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.