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  • Eupolemeia bare, the daughter of Myrmidon, from Phthia; the two others were sprung from Antianeira, daughter of Menetes.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • And to him when he grew to manhood the Muses gave a bride, and taught him the arts of healing and of prophecy; and they made him the keeper of their sheep, of all that grazed on the Athamantian plain of Phthia and round steep Othrys and the sacred stream of the river Apidanus.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • He dwells on the banks of the river Apidanus, in the borders of Phthia.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • To whose house shall I be brought, to be his slave and chattel? to some haven in the Dorian land, or in Phthia, where men say

    Hecuba 2008

  • Next I sought the countless fleet, a wonder to behold, that I might fill my girlish eyes with gazing, a sweet delight. 'the warlike Myrmidons from Phthia held the right wing with fifty swift cruisers, upon whose sterns, right at the ends, stood Nereid goddesses in golden-effigy, the ensign of Achilles' armament.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • To whose house shall I be brought, to be his slave and chattel? to some haven in the Dorian land, or in Phthia, where men say

    Hecuba 2008

  • He dwells on the banks of the river Apidanus, in the borders of Phthia.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Whereupon my brother, bringing every argument to bear, persuaded me at last to face the crime; so I wrote in a folded scroll and sent to my wife, bidding her despatch our daughter to me on the pretence of wedding Achilles, it the same time magnifying his exalted rank and saying that he refused to sail with the Achaeans, unless a bride of our lineage should go to Phthia.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Next I sought the countless fleet, a wonder to behold, that I might fill my girlish eyes with gazing, a sweet delight. 'the warlike Myrmidons from Phthia held the right wing with fifty swift cruisers, upon whose sterns, right at the ends, stood Nereid goddesses in golden-effigy, the ensign of Achilles' armament.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Whereupon my brother, bringing every argument to bear, persuaded me at last to face the crime; so I wrote in a folded scroll and sent to my wife, bidding her despatch our daughter to me on the pretence of wedding Achilles, it the same time magnifying his exalted rank and saying that he refused to sail with the Achaeans, unless a bride of our lineage should go to Phthia.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

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