Phorbas slain by Apollo. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Phorbas, a prince of the Thessalian Phlegyes assisted Alector, king of Elis, in the war against Pelops, and shared the kingdom with him. tradition has Phorbas as a bold boxer who attacked travellers on the road and was eventually defeated by Apollo.
Phorbas slain by Apollo. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Phorbas, a prince of the Thessalian Phlegyes assisted Alector, king of Elis, in the war against Pelops, and shared the kingdom with him. tradition has Phorbas as a bold boxer who attacked travellers on the road and was eventually defeated by Apollo.
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