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Antiphates

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Canonical name
Antiphates
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Monster
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Antiphates is a named Laestrygonian acting with the explicitly identified ogre collective.

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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Claims

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·Remembered

Antiphates is a Laestrygonian king and the father of the young woman met by Ulysses’s scouts.

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daughter to a Laestrygonian named Antiphates. She was going to the fountain Artacia from which the people bring in their water, and when my men had come close up to her, they asked her who the king of that country
·Remembered

Antiphates seizes one scout, kills him, and begins eating him immediately.

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he set about killing my men. He snatched up one of them, and began to make his dinner off him then and there
·Remembered

Ulysses’s men remember their terrible treatment by the Laestrygonian Antiphates.

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remembered how they had been treated by the Laestrygonian Antiphates

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Remembered
Antiphates raised a hue-and-cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter—ogres, not men

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 10

‘The men when they got on shore followed a level road by which the people draw their firewood from the mountains into the town, till presently they met a young woman who had come outside to fetch water, and who was daughter to a Laestrygonian named Antiphates. She was going to the fountain Artacia from which the people bring in their water, and when my men had come close up to her, they asked her who the king of that country might be, and over what kind of people he ruled; so she directed them to her father’s house, but when they got there they found his wife to be a giantess as huge as a mountain, and they were horrified at the sight of her.