Phrastor
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Phrastor of Aegilia
in the texts
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Athenian laboring man who married Phano believing her to be Stephanus's legitimate daughter, later discovered the deception, divorced her, and, after a later illness, briefly adopted her son before the Brytid gens rejected him.
) Please call Phrastor of Aegilia.
He was in a precarious condition and there was not much hope that he would recover.
When the members of the gens tendered this challenge to Phrastor before the arbitrator, he refused to take the oath, and did not swear.
Olympian
Legendary winner of the javelin at the first Olympic games.
Phrastor hit the mark with the javelin.