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Phytalus

*Fu/talos), 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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    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.37.2
    • Plutarch, Theseus, 12
    • Plutarch, Theseus, 22
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