Pharmacides
Φαρμακίδες
(Φαρμακίδες) i.e. sorceresses or witches, is the name by which the Thebans designated the divinities who delayed the birth of Heracles. (Paus. 9.11.2.)
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.