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Taphians

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Canonical name
Taphians
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
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Aliases

0

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

1
·Disguised

In Minerva’s Mentes disguise, Mentes claims kingship over the Taphians.

See evidence text
“I am King of the Taphians”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Disguised
“chief of the Taphians”
·Direct
“from among the Taphians”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 8

So saying she bound on her glittering golden sandals, imperishable, with which she can fly like the wind over land or sea; she grasped the redoubtable bronze-shod spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her, and down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, whereon forthwith she was in Ithaca, at the gateway of Ulysses’ house, disguised as a visitor, Mentes, chief of the Taphians, and she held a bronze spear in her hand. There she found the lordly suitors seated on hides of the oxen which they had killed and eaten, and playing draughts in front of the house. Men-servants and pages were bustling about to wait upon them, some mixing wine with water in the mixing-bowls, some cleaning down the tables with wet sponges and laying them out again, and some cutting up great quantities of meat.