Strophius
mythological figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
aged Strophius · the old man
in the texts
Electra
The Phocian to whom the infant Orestes was entrusted for safekeeping and upbringing.
when Orestes was about to die at the hand of Aegisthus, his father’s old servant stole him away and gave him to Strophius to bring up in the land of the Phocians.
Iphigenia in Tauris
Father of Pylades, ruler of Phocis.
Orestes:
for Strophius was childless for some time.
Strophius of Phocis is the name of his father.
Orestes
Pylades' father, who has banished Pylades from his house in anger over his role in the matricide.
Strophius, my father, in a fit of anger, has banished me from his house.
Pythian
A friend of Agamemnon's family who shelters the young exiled Orestes at his home at the foot of Parnassus.
And his young son went to the friend of the family, the old man