Phaon (fiction)

Phaon (fiction)

:"For the Greek mythological character, see Phaon."

Phaon is a character in Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene", in book II, canto iv. This Phaon is a squire who is deceived by Philemon and, under the influence of Furor (frenzied rage), kills Claribel with his sword and Philemon with poison.


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