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Taphians
In Homeric Greece the islands of Taphos lay in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania in northwestern Greece, home of sea-going and piratical inhabitants, the Taphians. Penelope mentions the Taphian sea-robbers when she rebukes the chief of her suitors (Odyssey, book xi), and it is disguised as "Mentes", "lord of the Taphian men who love their oars," that Athena accepts the hospitality of Telemachus and speeds him on his journey from Ithaca to Pylos (Odyssey i).
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