Phineus

Phineus

In Greek mythology, Phineus (Ancient Greek: Φινεύς, ) was a king of Thrace and seer who appears in accounts of Argonauts' voyage. Several different versions of Phineus's parentage were presented in ancient texts. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, he was a son of Agenor, but the Bibliotheca says that other authors named his father as Poseidon. The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, on the other hand, reported that Phineus was the son of Phoenix and Cassiopeia. His first wife was Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, by whom he had a pair of sons; his second wife Idaea, daughter of Dardanus, deceived him into blinding these sons, a fate Phineus himself would suffer.

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