Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Pheres.
In play
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Medea
Euripides
Euripides' tragedy makes Medea murder her children by Jason — Pheres (with Mermerus) among the Corinthian sons whose deaths seal the poisoned-gift plot against Creon and Glauce.
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Pheres
Son of Jason and Medea — carefully distinct from Pheres son of Cretheus, Admetus' father; the Corinthian child of the poisoned robes.
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Mermerus and Pheres
The paired sons of Jason and Medea — Pausanias and others keep their Corinthian tomb as the children's memorial after the murder.
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Jason
Pheres' father — the hero whose Corinthian remarriage costs him the children Medea kills in revenge.