The Phoronis is a lost work by the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus of Lesbos.[1] It takes its title from the local Tirynthian culture hero Phoroneus.[2] It was an account of Argolic tradition, consisting mostly of genealogies, with short accounts of various events included, from the time of Phoroneus, the "father of mortal men", to the "Return of the Heracleidae".[3]
- ^ Fowler 2013, p. 684; Fowler 2000, pp. 155–158; Mure, pp. 224–227; Müller 1841, pp. 45–46; Müller 1851, pp. 629–630.
- ^ Mure, p. 224.
- ^ Britannica 1905, s.v. Hellanicus p. 566. Phoroneus, was said to be the "father of mortal men" in the epic poem also called Phoronis (c. 7th – 6th century BC), by an unknown author, which told the story of Phoroneus, see Fowler 2013, p. 236; Phoronis fr. 1 West, pp. 282, 283.