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Apheidas

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Apheidas
Disambiguator
None
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Character
Scope
Individual
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Aliases

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king Apheidas

Title · Disguised

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Disguised

Eperitus claims king Apheidas as his father and Polypemon as his grandfather.

See evidence text
“I come from Alybas, where I have a fine house. I am son of king Apheidas, who is the son of Polypemon”

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Disguised
“I am son of king Apheidas, who is the son of Polypemon”

Passage preview

Book 24 · Passage 18

‘I will tell you everything,’ answered Ulysses, ‘quite truly. I come from Alybas, where I have a fine house. I am son of king Apheidas, who is the son of Polypemon. My own name is Eperitus; heaven drove me off my course as I was leaving Sicania, and I have been carried here against my will. As for my ship it is lying over yonder, off the open country outside the town, and this is the fifth year since Ulysses left my country. Poor fellow, yet the omens were good for him when he left me. The birds all flew on our right hands, and both he and I rejoiced to see them as we parted, for we had every hope that we should have another friendly meeting and exchange presents.’