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Thesprotians

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Thesprotians
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
This people is named within Ulysses’s lying Cretan biography.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

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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·Remembered

The Thesprotians are remembered as peaceful with Ithaca when Eupeithes and Taphian pirates plundered them.

See evidence text
“some Taphian pirates and plundered the Thesprotians who were at peace with us”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

4
·Disguised
“Pheidon king of the Thesprotians”
·Remembered
“plundered the Thesprotians who were at peace with us”
·Reported
“alive and near at hand among the Thesprotians”
·Disguised
“he is among the Thesprotians”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 16

‘The ship ran before a fresh North wind till we had reached the sea that lies between Crete and Libya; there, however, Jove counselled their destruction, for as soon as we were well out from Crete and could see nothing but sea and sky, he raised a black cloud over our ship and the sea grew dark beneath it. Then Jove let fly with his thunderbolts and the ship went round and round and was filled with fire and brimstone as the lightning struck it. The men fell all into the sea; they were carried about in the water round the ship looking like so many sea-gulls, but the god presently deprived them of all chance of getting home again. I was all dismayed. Jove, however, sent the ship’s mast within my reach, which saved my life, for I clung to it, and drifted before the fury of the gale. Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast. There Pheidon king of the Thesprotians entertained me hospitably without charging me anything at all—for his son found me when I was nearly dead with cold and fatigue, whereon he raised me by the hand, took me to his father’s house and gave me clothes to wear.