Phegeus
Φηγεύς
(Φηγεύς).
1. A brother of Phoroneus, and king of Psophis in Arcadia. The town of Phegeia, which had before been called Erymanthus, was believed to have derived its name from him. Subsequently, however, it was changed again into Psophis (Steph. Byz. s. v. Φήγεια Paus. 8.24.1). He is said to have been the father of Alphesiboea or Arsinoe, Pronous, and Agenor, or of Temenus and Axion (Paus. 6.17.4, 8.24.4, 9.41.2; Apollod. 3.7.6); and to have purified Alcmaeon after he had killed his mother, but was slain by the sons of Alcmaeon. (Apollod. l.c.; camp. ALCMIABON.)
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.