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    home of seagoing and piratical inhabitants, the Taphians /ˈteɪfiənz/ (Τάφιοι). Penelope mentions the Taphian sea-robbers when she rebukes the chief of her...
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    the Taphians. (It was on his return from this expedition that Electryon had been killed.) Amphitryon accordingly took the field against the Taphians, accompanied...
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  • Mentes (Ancient Greek: 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...
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  • 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...
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    The pla taphian (Thai: ปลาตะเพียน, pronounced [plāː tā.pʰīa̯n]) is a traditional central Thai handicraft. It is a woven hanging mobile, usually made from...
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  • 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...
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  • island of the same name, and was its king. He also gave his name to the Taphians, a people that inhabited Taphos and nearby islands, which formed part of...
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  • (mentioned in Iliad's Catalogue of Ships) Taphians and Teleboans - in the Echinades Islands Taphians (Táphioi) - in Taphos Island and other Echinades...
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    the death of her brothers. During Amphitryon's expedition against the Taphians and Teleboans, when Zeus desired to sleep with Alcmene, he made one night...
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  • Licymnius by Midea, a Phrygian woman. The six sons of Pterelaus, King of the Taphians, descended from Electryon's brother Mestor came to Mycenae to claim a share...
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