- home of
seagoing and
piratical inhabitants, the
Taphians /ˈteɪfiənz/ (Τάφιοι).
Penelope mentions the
Taphian sea-robbers when she
rebukes the
chief of her...
- The pla
taphian (Thai: ปลาตะเพียน,
pronounced [plāː tā.pʰīa̯n]) is a
traditional central Thai handicraft. It is a
woven hanging mobile,
usually made from...
-
Mentes (Ancient Gr****: Μέντης Méntēs) is the name of the King of the
Taphians and the son of Anchialus. He is
mentioned in the Odyssey. In Book I, the...
- mythology,
Tyrannus (Ancient Gr****: Τύραννος
means 'an
absolute ruler') was a
Taphian prince a son of King
Pterelaus and
brother of Chromius, Chersidamas, Antiochus...
-
Heracles and Parthenope,
daughter of King
Stymphalus of Arcadia. Everes, a
Taphian prince who was the only one to
survive among the sons of King Pterelaus...
- the
Taphians. (It was on his
return from this
expedition that
Electryon had been killed.)
Amphitryon accordingly took the
field against the
Taphians, accompanied...
-
Mentes (King of the Cicones), as
described in the
Iliad Mentes (King of the
Taphians), as
described in the
Odyssey Menteş, Sandıklı,
village in
Turkey Mentes...
- and
princess of the
Taphians. The
Taphians were at war with Thebes, led by Amphitryon, with whom
Comaetho fell in love. The
Taphians remained invincible...
- philosophy.
During his master's long absence,
Eumaeus acquires from the
Taphians a servant, Mesaulius, with his own
ostensibly meagre resources. Mesaulius...
-
scholars have ****erted that
Corfu is Taphos, the
island of the
Lelegian Taphians.
According to
Strabo (VI, 269), the
Liburnians were
masters of the island...
