Phthia · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

IliadClassical · Greek

Achilles' homeland, referenced as untouched by the Trojans and as his threatened destination if he withdraws.

They have not raided my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the fertile plains of Phthia;

it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonored to gather gold and substance for you.

chapter 1 ¶

If great Poseidon grants me a fair passage, in three days I shall be in Phthia.

chapter 9 ¶

AndromacheClassical · Greek

The kingdom ruled by Peleus and (nominally) Neoptolemus, the play's setting, near Pharsalia in Thessaly.

or, supposing thou bear no children, will any one endure that sons of mine should rule oer Phthia?

andromache ¶

suppose my daughter has no child, while this woman’s sons grow up, wilt thou set them up to rule the land of Phthia, barbarians born and bred to lord it over Hellenes?

andromache ¶

And here I dwell upon the boundaries of Phthia and Pharsalia’s town, where Thetis erst, the goddess of the sea, abode with Peleus apart from the world, avoiding the throng of men;

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Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

Achilles' homeland in Thessaly, named both as the false destination invoked in Agamemnon's letter and as Achilles' actual home.

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

iphigenia in aulis ¶

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, at 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 in aulis ¶

or Sipylus, that frontier town of barbarism, the cradle of those chieftains’ line, will be henceforth a city indeed, while Phthia’s name will nowhere find mention.

epigrams ¶

The Trojan WomenClassical · Greek

Homeland of Achilles and his son, named repeatedly as a possible or actual destination for the captive Trojan women and their spoils.

What city did you say, Thessalian, Phthian, or Cadmean?

the trojan women ¶

What man of Argos or Phthia will bear me in sorrow far from Troy, to his home, or to some island fastness?

the trojan women ¶

Where are you being carried, unhappy wife, mounted on that chariot, side by side with Hector’s brazen arms and Phrygian spoils of war, with which Achilles’ son will deck the shrines of Phthia on his return from Troy?

the trojan women ¶

OrationsImperial · Greek

Achilles' homeland, compared to Macedonia by Alexander.

For I do not consider you inferior to Peleus, nor would I call Macedonia weaker than Phthia, nor Olympus less renowned than Mount Pelion;

oration 2 ¶

HecubaClassical · Greek

A region of Greece associated with Achilles' homeland, imagined by the Chorus as a possible destination of their coming enslavement.

to some haven in the Dorian land, or in Phthia, where men say Apidanus, father of fairest streams, makes fat and rich the soil?

hecuba ¶

NemeanClassical · Greek

Thessalian region associated with Thetis's rule and Achilles's homeland.

Thetis rules in Phthia, and Neoptolemus in the expanses of Epirus, where jutting ox-pasturing headlands, beginning in Dodona, slope down to the Ionian sea.

chapter 4 ¶

CritoClassical · Greek

The destination named by the woman in Socrates' dream, echoing a line from Homer

I dreamed that a beautiful, fair woman, clothed in white raiment, came to me and called me and said, Socrates, on the third day thou wouldst come to fertile Phthia.

crito ¶

TheagesClassical · Greek

Region ruled by Peleus, cited as the second despot example.

Well now, did not Peleus, son of Aeacus, govern these same people in Phthia?

theages ¶