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Hypereia

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Hypereia
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fair town of Hypereia

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Fair Hypereia was the former Phaeacian town near the lawless Cyclopes.

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“live in the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes. Now the Cyclopes were stronger than they”

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“the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes”

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Book 6 · Passage 1

So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva went off to the country and city of the Phaeacians—a people who used to live in the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes. Now the Cyclopes were stronger than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people. He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the lands among his people; but he was dead and gone to the house of Hades, and King Alcinous, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now reigning. To his house, then, did Minerva hie in furtherance of the return of Ulysses.