Trophonius
Τροφώνιος
(Τροφώνιος), a son of Erginus, king of Orchomenus, or of Apollo. He with his brother Agamedes built the temple at Delphi and the treasury of king Hyrieus in Boeotia. (Hom. Hymn. in Apoll. 296; Paus. 9.37 and 39; Strab. ix. p.421.) After his death he was worshipped as a hero, and had a celebrated oraele in cave near Lebadeia in Boeotia. ( Hdt. 1.46; Strab. ix. p.414; Eurip. Ion, 300; Aristoph. Nab. 502; comp. Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Oraculum.)
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.