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Location information
Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Mythology
for destination: "FARES
Ancient city
KALAMATA".
Mythology (2)
Eponymous founders or settlers
Pharis
Son of Hermes and Phylodamia, founds Pharae.
Kings
Gorgasus
Gorgasus, (Gorgasos), one of the sons of Machaon, the son of Aesculapius, by Anticleia, the daughter of Diocles, king of Pherae, in Messenia who, after the death of his grandfather, succeeded to the kingdom. He also followed the example of his father, by practising the art of healing, for which he received divine honours after his death. (Paus. iv. 30.2.)
- A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith)
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