Phanothiea
Φανοθέα
(Φανοθέα) was the wife of the Athenian Icarius. [ICARIUS, No. 1.] She was said to have invented the hexameter. (Clem. Alex. Stromin. i. p. 366.) Porphyrits designates her as the Delphic priestess of Apollo (ἡ Δελφοῦ. Stob. Florileg. 21.26.)
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.