Phayllos of Croton () was an ancient Greek athlete and a naval commander from Croton in southern Italy, who outfitted and commanded a ship at the Battle of Salamis.
Life Phayllos won three victories in the Pythian Games, two of them in the pentathlon.Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece, Nigel Nicholson, page 125
In 480 BC, Phyallos outfitted a ship and commanded it in the Battle of Salamis, the only one from the Italian coast, and received praise for his exploits by Herodotus.
Culture and honors Phayllos is used by Aristophanes as an example of long ago swiftness in his plays.Four Comedies: Lysistrata/The Congresswomen/The Acharnians/The Frogs by Aristophanes, edited by William Arrowsmith, translated by Douglass Parker, page 102
Plurarch wrote that Alexander the Great sent part of the spoils of the Battle of Gaugamela to Croton in Phayllos's honor.Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories, Elizabeth Irwin & Emily Greenwood, page 175
An inscription at the base of a statue of Phayllos at the Acropolis of Athens reads: "Phayllos was admired by all. For he was thrice victor in the games at Delphi, and captured ships which Asia sent forth."Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the ..., Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland, page 236
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