Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Strophius.
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Electra
Euripides
Euripides' Electra keeps Strophius as the Phocian king who sheltered the infant Orestes — the foster-father whose house makes Pylades Orestes' brother-in-arms.
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Orestes
The Oresteian exile begins at Strophius' court — the Phocian king who raised Agamemnon's son beside Pylades until the return to Mycenae.
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Pylades
Pylades is Strophius' son — the friendship that defines Orestes' nostos starts in the house of the Phocian king.
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Strophius
King of Phocis, son of Crisus — foster-father of Orestes and father of Pylades in the Oresteian cycle.