Φθία
Phthia
Translated by David Whitehead21 Nov 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φθία· πόλις, πατρὶς Ἀχιλλέως. καὶ Φθιάδος, Θετταλικῆς.
Betacode
*fqi/a: po/lis, patri\s *)axille/ws. kai\ *fqia/dos, *qettalikh=s.
Notes (2)
- See also phi 496.
- 1For Phthia as the home of Achilles, see Homer, Iliad 1.155-6, etc. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. classifies it as a "city and part" of Thessaly. As the second of these things, it is (or became) more properly known as Phthiotis; as the first, it should probably be identified with its principal city, Pharsalos (so H.D. Westlake, Thessaly in the Fourth Century BC (London 1935) 11-12). ↩
- 2Sc. land. Likewise in other lexica; references at Photius phi145 Theodoridis. This genitive singular is taken to be quoted from Euripides: see Hecuba 451 (with scholion), Andromache 861. ↩
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- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Translated — David Whitehead