Polybus
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Polybus was a famous physician. See History of anatomy.
In Greek mythology, there were four people named Polybus, or Pólybos.
- A Corinthian king, husband of Merope or Periboea, who raised Oedipus, who had been abandoned by his mother.
- A King of Sicyon, father of Talaus.
- A King of Thebes (in Egypt). Menelaus and Helen stayed in his court for a while after the Trojan War.
- A suitor of Penelope, killed by Eumaeus,
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