(Ancient Greek: Φόρβας, gen. Φόρβαντος) or Phorbaceus[pronunciation?]
According to scholia on Euripides, his parents were Criasus and Melantho (Melantomice[2]), brother of Ereuthalion and Cleoboea and father of Arestor and Triopas by Euboea.
[4] His mother in the latter case maybe Evadne, daughter of river god Strymon.
[6] Eusebius included him in the list of kings of Argos, in which he reigned for thirty five years and was succeeded by Triopas.
He was a contemporary of Actaeus, the first king of Attica who named the country after himself, Actaea.