Ephyra
place · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
City in the heart of Argos where Sisyphus lived, named as the ancestral home of Glaukos' line.
There is a city in the heart of Argos, pasture land of horses, called Ephyra, where Sisyphus lived, who was the craftiest of all humankind.
Phyleus had brought it from Ephyra and the river Selleis, where his host, King Euphetes, had given it him to wear in battle and protect him.
Odyssey
A place from which Odysseus once returned after seeking arrow-poison from Ilos.
He was then coming from Ephyra, where he had been to beg poison for his arrows from Ilos, son of Mermerus.
Or will he go to Ephyra as well, for poison to put in our wine and kill us?
Nemean
Place reached by Neoptolemus after wandering off course on his voyage home.
But on his return voyage he missed Scyros, and after wandering from their course they came to Ephyra.