Phyleus (Ancient Greek: Φυλεύς) was an Elean prince, elder son of King Augeas of Elis, and father of Meges. After testifying for Heracles in the dispute over the Augean stables, he was exiled and settled a colony of Epeans on Dulichium; from that island his son Meges later led ships to Troy. He is also numbered among the Calydonian boar hunters.
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I.Family
Phyleus was son of Augeas of Elis. As father of Meges he is paired in different sources with Eustyoche, Hagnete, Ctimene, or Ctesimache; some accounts also name Timandra, daughter of Tyndareus, as Meges' mother after she deserted her husband Echemus.
He is further credited as father of Eurydameia, who by the seer Polyidus bore Euchenor and Cleitus.
II.Exile and Dulichium
During Heracles' fifth labour, Augeas refused the promised reward once he learned Eurystheus had commanded the cleaning of the stables. Called as a witness, Phyleus sided with Heracles against his father; Augeas then banished both son and hero. In exile Phyleus led Epeans to Dulichium. After Heracles later killed Augeas and his other sons, he restored Phyleus to the Elean kingdom in some accounts.
Homer remembers him as the horseman who left his father's house in anger and dwelt on Dulichium, dear to Zeus. From that western island Meges, peer of Ares, mustered the contingent of the Echinae and sailed to Troy.
III.Other traditions
Ovid and related catalogues include Phyleus among the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. The atlas id phyleus-dulichium marks the Augeid exile and Meges' father — the figure of the Iliad Catalogue — rather than any lesser namesake.