A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Φύταλος), an Eleusinian hero, who is said to have kindly received Demeter on her wanderings, and was rewarded by the goddess with a fig-tree (Paus. 1.37.2). To him the noble Athenian family of the Phytalidae traced their origin. (Plut. Thes. 12, 22.)

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