Polybus
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
father · Polybus the physician · aged Polybus · the man that Oedipus long feared he would slay
in the texts
Oedipus Tyrannus
The Corinthian man whom Oedipus believes to be his father.
My father was Polybus of Corinth, my mother the Dorian Merope.
Never in past days or in these have I heard how the house of Labdacus or the son of Polybus had any quarrel with one another that
Oedipus:
Stromata
Physician cited for his treatise on eight-months' children.
And they say too that the embryo is completed to exactness in the sixth month — that is, in a hundred and eighty days and two and a half over — as Polybus the physician records in his work On Eight-months' Children, and Aristotle the philosopher in his work On Nature.