Editing Phlegyas (section)

==Mythology==
Phlegyas succeeded [[Eteocles of Orchomenus|Eteocles]], who died without issue, in the government of the district of [[Orchomenus (Boeotia)|Orchomenos]], which he named Phlegyantis, after himself.

While pregnant with [[Asclepius]], Coronis fell in love with [[Ischys]], son of [[Elatus]]. When a [[hooded crow]] informed Apollo of the affair, he sent his sister [[Artemis]] to kill Coronis, unable to perform the task himself. However, [[Hermes]] rescued the baby from Coronis' womb and gave it to the [[centaur]] [[Chiron]] to raise. Phlegyas, angry at Apollo for killing his daughter, torched the Apollonian temple at [[Delphi]], causing Apollo to kill him with his arrows and condemn him to severe punishment in the lower world.<ref>''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn]] to [[Apollo]], 15.3''</ref><ref>[[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes'' 3.13</ref><ref>Apollodorus, 2.26.4 & 3.10.3</ref><ref>[[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]], ''Commentary on [[Virgil|Virgil's]] [[Aeneid]]'' 6.618</ref><ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' 1.713</ref> In another version of the myth, Phlegyas had no children and the two brothers Lycus and Nycteus are responsible for his death.

In the ''[[Aeneid]]'' of [[Virgil]], Phlegyas is shown tormented in [[Tartarus]] in the [[Greek underworld|Underworld]], warning others not to despise the gods. In the ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' of [[Statius]], Phlegyas is also shown to be in the Underworld entombed in a rock by [[Megaera]] (one of the [[Erinyes|Furies]]) and starved in front of an eternal feast (comparable to the torment of [[Tantalus]]).