Polyphron
Πολύφρων
(Πολύφρων), the brother of Jason of Pherae, Tagus of Thessaly, succeeded to the supreme power along with his brother Polydorus on the death of Jason, in B. C. 370. Shortly afterwards he murdered Polydorus [POLYDORUS], and thus became sole Tagus. He exercised his power with great cruelty, and converted his office into a tyranny. He murdered Polydamas of Pharsalus [POLYDAMAS], but was murdered in his turn. B. C. 319, by his nephew Alexander, who proved, however, a still greater tyrant. [ALEXANDER of PHERAE.] (Xen. Hell. 6.4. §§ 33, 34; Plut. Peiop. 100.29.)
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.