Phyllis is also the name of a U.S. TV series. Phyllis was a sitcom which aired on CBS from 1975 to 1977. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...

Phyllis is a character in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Lycurgus, King of Thrace who married Demophoon, son of Theseus, while he stopped in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan war. Jump to: navigation, search Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... In Ancient Greece and/or Greek mythology, the name Lycurgus/Lykurgus can refer to: An alternate name for Lycomedes. ... Thrace (Greek Θρᾴκη Thrákē, Bulgarian Тракия Trakija, Turkish Trakya) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and European Turkey. ... In Greek mythology, Demophon referred to two different kings: one of Eleusis and the other of Athens. ... Theseus (Greek Θησευς) was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aegeus (or of Poseidon). ...

Demophoon, duty bound to Greece, returns home to help his father, leaving Phyllis behind. She sends him away with a coffin with the sacrament of Rhea, asking him to open it only when he has given up hope of returning to her. From here, the story diverges. In one version, Phyllis commits suicide by hanging herself from a tree. Where she is buried, an almond tree grows, which blossoms when Demophoon returns to her. In a second version of the story, Demophoon opens the caskets and accidently falls on his own sword. In Greek mythology, Rhea was the sister and wife of Cronus and the mother of many of the other major gods of the pantheon. ...

This story most notably appears in Book II of Ovid's epistolary epic, the Heroides, and also appears in the work of Callimachus. Jump to: navigation, search Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ... Heroides (The Heroines) or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines) was a work composed by Ovid in 5 BC. It is composed of 21 letters, each fictitiously attributed to heroines of antiquity grieving over their unrequited loves. ... Callimachus (ca. ...

The Nine Ways is derived from the story of Phyllis, who is said to have return nine times to the shores to wait for Demophoon's return.

See: Fulkerson, Laurel. "Reading dangerously: Phyllis, Dido, Ariadne, and Meda". Italic textThe Ovidian Heroine as AuthorItalic text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.