Taphians
group · 3 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Taphians · citadel of the Taphians
in the texts
Heracles
A people whose citadel Amphitryon razed in his youth, recalled by Megara as evidence of his former martial glory.
Old warrior, who once razed the citadel of the Taphians leading on the troops of Thebes to glory, how uncertain are the gods’ dealings with man!
Well for you if you had died in that day, when, for your wife, you went forth to exact vengeance for her slain brothers by sacking the Taphians’ sea-beat town.
Odyssey
A seafaring people, traders in iron and copper, whose chief Athena impersonates during her visit to Ithaca.
I am Mentes, son of Anchialos, and I am King of the Taphians.
As for the stranger, he was Mentes, son of Anchialos, chief of the Taphians, an old friend of my father's.
she grasped the redoubtable bronze-shod spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her, and down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, whereon forthwith she was in the dêmos of Ithaca, at the gateway of Odysseus' house, disguised as a visitor, Mentes, chief of the Taphians, and she held a bronze spear in her hand.
Shield of Heracles
A people whose villages Amphitryon is bound to destroy in vengeance for the deaths of Alcmena's brothers.
There he dwelt with his modest wife without the joys of love, nor might he go in unto the neat-ankled daughter of Electryon until he had avenged the death of his wife's great-hearted brothers and utterly burned with blazing fire the villages of the heroes, the Taphians and Teleboans;