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Taphians

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28: 169:(405 BCE), the chorus of women from Chalcis have spied the Hellenes' fleet and seen Eurytus who "led the Taphian warriors with the white oar-blades, the subjects of Meges, son of Phyleus, who had left the isles of the Echinades, where sailors cannot land." Modern scholars, such as the editors of the 226:
could overcome and kill him and retrieve the cattle Pterelaos' sons had rustled from Mycenae, along with many spoils besides. As he was returning with his spoils to his bride at
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preceded him by one night: taking Amphitryon's shape, and brandishing a Taphian cup as a sign of his success, the king of gods fathered
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to beget the heroic founder. Another tradition holds that Taphius was one of the
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mentions the Taphian sea-robbers when she rebukes the chief of her
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colonizer, was a granddaughter of Perseus and lay with
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The Taphians accounted themselves the descendants of
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Taphii

Homeric Greece
/ˈtˌfɒs/
Ionian Sea
Acarnania
piratical
/ˈtfiənz/
Penelope
suitors
Athena
Mentes
Telemachus
Ithaca
Pylos
Euripides
Echinades
Iphigeneia at Aulis
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Meganisi
Lefkada
Perseus
Taphius
eponymous
Poseidon
Leleges
Lelex
Pterelaos
Comaetho
Amphitryon

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