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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