Pheia
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Iliad
Town under whose walls Nestor's recalled battle with the Arcadians took place.
Would, by father Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, that I were still young and strong as when the Pylians and Arcadians were gathered in fight by the rapid river Keladon under the walls of Pheia, and round about the waters of the river Iardanos.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A coastal town in Elis raided by the Athenian fleet, briefly held by troops who came by land during a storm before the whole force withdrew.
Afterwards the fleet sailed round and picked them up, and they evacuated the place and put out to sea;
But a violent wind coming down upon them, being exposed to the storm in a harbourless place, the greater part of them went on board their ships, and sailed round the promontory called Ichthys, into the port at Pheia;
and landing at Pheia in Elis, they ravaged the territory for two days, and conquered in battle three hundred picked men, who had come to the rescue from the inhabitants of the Vale of Elis, and from the Eleans in the immediate neighbourhood.