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City and region of southern Thessalia,
on the mainland facing northern Euboea
(the city of Phthia itself has not been located by archaeologists; the region
is variously called Phthia or Phthiotis).
Phthia is best known as the country of Achilles and his father Peleus.
Mythology knows of a Phthia, eponym of the region, who was loved by Apollo and
gave him three sons, Dorus (the ancestor of the Dorians, who is also sometimes
presented as a son of Hellen and a grandson of Deucalion), Laodocus and Polypoetes,
who where kings of this country before they were slain by Aetolus, one of the
sons of Endymion, king of Elis,
and the ancestor of the Aetolians who settled on the northern shore of the gulf
of Corinth and founded such cities as Pleuron
and Calydon.
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1999), ed.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Plato and his dialogues URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
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