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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Phorbus_(mythology)/ILAco7LR">Phorbus (mythology)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Dictys_Cretensis/FxD6JUsw">Dictys Cretensis</a><i>, from The Trojan War.</i> <i>The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and <a href="/facts/Dares_Phrygius/9NPreabj">Dares the Phrygian</a></i> translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. <a href="https://topostext.org/work/152">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Diodorus_Siculus/8u9UIDTz">Diodorus Siculus</a>, <i>The Library of History</i> translated by <a href="/facts/Charles_Henry_Oldfather/14RpqCws">Charles Henry Oldfather</a>. Twelve volumes. <a href="/facts/Loeb_Classical_Library/AIRXBouP">Loeb Classical Library</a>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html">Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site</a></li> <li>Diodorus Siculus, <i>Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2</i>. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Homer/Xw8Ur53U">Homer</a>, <a href="/facts/Iliad/HceJKUGB"><i>The Iliad</i></a> with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0674995796. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Homer, <i>Homeri Opera</i> in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0198145318. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Seneca_the_Younger/ND2lmLUv">Lucius Annaeus Seneca</a>, <i>Tragedies</i>. Translated by Miller, Frank Justus. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/SenecaOedipus.html">Online version at theio.com.</a></li> <li>Lucius Annaeus Seneca, <i>Tragoediae</i>. Rudolf Peiper. Gustav Richter. Leipzig. Teubner. 1921. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0007">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Nonnus/JFUSYERD">Nonnus of Panopolis</a>, <i>Dionysiaca</i> translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. <a href="https://topostext.org/work/529">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li>Nonnus of Panopolis, <i>Dionysiaca. 3 Vols.</i> W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0485">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pausanias_(geographer)/3jMP2VVl">Pausanias</a>, <i>Description of Greece</i> with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-674-99328-4. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a></li> <li>Pausanias, <i>Graeciae Descriptio.</i> <i>3 vols</i>. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)/MR6V76lu">Pseudo-Apollodorus</a>, <i>The Library</i> with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-674-99135-4. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a> <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021">Greek text available from the same website</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Ovid/qw6buQ2V">Publius Ovidius Naso</a>, <i>Metamorphoses</i> translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Publius Ovidius Naso, <i>Metamorphoses.</i> Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Statius/j9oKLrxF">Publius Papinius Statius</a><i>, The Thebaid</i> translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. <a href="https://topostext.org/work/149">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li>Publius Papinius Statius, <i>The Thebaid. Vol I-II</i>. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0498">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Virgil/K9zjwwHS">Publius Vergilius Maro</a>, <i>Aeneid.</i> Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Publius Vergilius Maro, <i>Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics</i>. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Stephanus_of_Byzantium/LBSKLrrC">Stephanus of Byzantium</a>, <i>Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,</i> edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. <a href="https://topostext.org/work/241">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Suda/qXBhyANI">Suida</a>, <i>Suda Encyclopedia</i> translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. <a href="https://topostext.org/work/240">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phorbas (shepherd). <ul><li><a href="http://www.cosmovisions.com/$Phorbas.htm">Imago Mundi: Phorbas</a> (in French)</li> <li><a href="http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000033073.html">Phorbas bringing Oedipus back to life</a>, Louvre, Paris, France (in French)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060511160948/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2678.html">Smith, William (ed.). <i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities</i>. 1870.</a>[usurped]</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Apollodorus, 2.5.5 <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Diodorus Siculus, 5.58.5 <a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" target="_blank">/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Arestor", Wikipedia, 2022-12-27, retrieved 2023-05-07 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arestor&oldid=1129781669" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arestor&oldid=1129781669</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 840 ff. <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" target="_blank">/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Statius, Thebaid 7.253 <a href="/wiki/Statius" target="_blank">/wiki/Statius</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Pausanias, 6.19.13 <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" target="_blank">/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Homer, Iliad 9.665; Dictys Cretensis, 2.16 <a href="/wiki/Homer" target="_blank">/wiki/Homer</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Homer, Iliad 14.489 ff.; Virgil, Aeneid 5.842 <a href="/wiki/Virgil" target="_blank">/wiki/Virgil</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.74 <a href="/wiki/Ovid" target="_blank">/wiki/Ovid</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Eustathius on Homer, p. 1156; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 18.483 ff.; Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 854; Suda, s.v. Phorbanteion <a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" target="_blank">/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Nonnus, 14.94 ff. <a href="/wiki/Nonnus" target="_blank">/wiki/Nonnus</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ambrakia, Dexamenai <a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" target="_blank">/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 1 <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Hephaestion" target="_blank">/wiki/Ptolemy_Hephaestion</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Hesychius of Alexandria, s.v. Phorbas <a href="/wiki/Hesychius_of_Alexandria" target="_blank">/wiki/Hesychius_of_Alexandria</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Plutarch, Romulus 2.2 <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" target="_blank">/wiki/Plutarch</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Greek Anthology 3.12 (Gk text) <a href="/wiki/Greek_Anthology" target="_blank">/wiki/Greek_Anthology</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>