Apheidas, one of the comrades of the
Greek hero Odysseus.[4] When the latter and 12 of his crew came into the port of
Sicily, the
CyclopsPolyphemus seized and confined them. The monster then slain Apheidas and five others namely:
Antiphon,
Euryleon,
Kepheus,
Stratios and
Menetos, while the remaining six survived.[5]
Apheidas (king of Athens), son of
Oxyntes. After a short reign of one year, his brother
Thymoetes succeeded him on the throne.[6]
Apheidas, a king after whom a part of
Molossians were named Apheidantes.[7]
^Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 141, 9.138.
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^Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 141, 9.135–140.
ISBN978-0-674-23837-4.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Odyssey translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
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