#phorbas

The herald says that only two men accompany him, and that he has a sword slung over his bright shoulders .. and two polished javelins in his hands, and a well-made Laconian hat on his head with its fire-red hair.

Bacchylides, Dythyrambs 18.45-50

It’s never said who exactly these people are but I discovered that there are a few good candidates based off other traditions.

Theseus is described as having two comrades (verse 46). It seems probable that the allusion is to Peirithous and Phorbas, whom some vase-paintings associate with Theseus in the act of carrying off the Amazon Antiope. There is also a vase which gives him two companions in his encounter with Sinis and with Procrustes’.

Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Bacchylides: The poems and fragments page 232-233

Well now it's Pride Month, you know what that means?

Branchus, Hymenaeus, Phorbas, Hippolytus of Sycion, Cyparissus, Helenus, Admetus, Adonis: that we'll get more fan content with Apollo?

*Please Read*

I advise everyone to read each contestant's story to get a well-rounded understanding of each entry. I urge you to not just vote for the one "you know best". I have everyone's stories/reasons why they should win under the cut.

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