Phyllis (mythology)

Phyllis (Ancient Greek: Φυλλίς, "leaves, foliage") is a character in Greek mythology, daughter of a Thracian king (according to some, of Sithon;[1][2] most other accounts do not give her father's name at all, but one states he is named either Philander, Ciasus, or Thelus[3]).

She marries Demophon, King of Athens and son of Theseus, while he stops in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan War.

[4] Demophon, duty bound to Greece, returns home to help his father, leaving Phyllis behind.

[1] In another version, Demophon opens the casket and, horrified by what he sees inside, rides off in such great haste that his horse stumbles and he accidentally falls on his own sword.

1390): That Phyllis in the same throweWas schape into a notetre,That alle men it mihte se,And after Phyllis philliberdThis tre was cleped in the yerd,And yit for Demephon to schameInto this dai it berth the name.This story most notably appears in the second poem of Ovid's Heroides,[7] a book of epistolary poems from mythological women to their respective men, and it also appears in the Aitia of Callimachus.