Phocus
Φῶκος
(Φῶκος).
1. A son of Ornytion of Corinth, or according to others of Poseidon, is said to have been the leader of a colony from Corinth into the territory of Tithorea and Mount Parnasss, which derived from him the name of Phocis. (Paus. 2.4.3, 29.2, 10.1.1.) He is said to have cured Antiope of her madness, and to have made her his wife (9.17.4).
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.