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Phialus

Φίαλος

(Φίαλος), a son of Bucolion, and father of Simtus, is said to have changed the name of the Arcadian town of Phigalia into Phialeia. (Paus. 8.1.5, 5.39.2.)

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.