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  Laestrygonians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The men followed a road and eventually met a young woman, who said she was a daughter of Antiphates, the king, and directed them to his house.
She called her husband, who immediately left the assembly of the people and upon arrival snatched up one of the men and started to eat him.
The other two men ran away, but Antiphates raised a hue-and-cry, so that they were pursued by thousands of Laestrygonians, cyclopes, not men.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laestrygonian   (323 words)

  
 Dictionary: Antimache to Arsippe, Greek Mythology Link.
Antiphates 3 was son of the soothsayer Melampus 1, son of Amythaon 1, son of Cretheus 1, son of Aeolus 1.
Antiphates 3 married Zeuxippe 4, daughter of Hippocoon 5, and had children by her: Oicles and Amphalces [Dio.4.68.5; Hom.Od.15.242-3].
Antiphates 4 is one of the companions of Aeneas in Italy.
www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/001ShortEntries/SEAntimache.html   (4668 words)

  
 Character information for Antiphates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Antiphates lives on a small tropical island and is a vicious ruler of his people.
In Temple of the Lestrigones Antiphates shrinks the Odyssey and its occupants in order to add it to his collection of miniaturised spaceships and animals.
In the ensuing pandemonium Antiphates falls against the prism, activates it and is himself miniaturised, much to the relief of his people over whom he was an ungrateful, ill-tempered ruler.
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 Greek Mythology: LAESTRYGONES / LAISTRYGONES Cannibal Giants
She sent out forthwith to fetch King Antiphates her husband from the assembly-place, and his only thought was to kill them miserably.
Antiphates was chieftain; I was sent to him with two companions; one with me fled - we just saved ourselves; the third of us fed with his flesh those fiendish cannibals.
Antiphates pursued us, mustering his braves, and in a crowd they came and threw tree-trunks and rocks and sank our craft, our crews.
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 Laestrygonians, Greek Mythology Link.
Having made their way to this house, they were received by the ruler's wife, a huge and terrifying woman, who immediately went to the market place to call her husband.
On his arrival, Antiphates 2 snatched one of Odysseus' men purposing to prepare a meal out of him or devouring him at once, but the other two, making a hasty retreat, managed to return to the ships.
In the meantime, however, Antiphates 2 mobilized his own forces, and thousands suddenly appeared at the tops of the cliffs.
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 Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Antiphates is the weapons master of the Holy Companions, with all the skill and tenacity one would expect from someone holding such a position.
A common joke amongst his students (behind his back, of course) is that the gods took a giant and squeezed him to the size of a dwarf to make Antiphates.
Antiphates worries about Hector’s lack of cleverness, especially since the lad excels at all the other aspects of being a Holy Companion.
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 Introductions to Lestrygonians
A shore party from the ships anchored in the bay is lured by a "stalwart / young girl" (10:105-6; ibid.) to the lodge of her father, Antiphates, king of the Lestrygonians.
The king turns out to be a giant and a cannibal, who promptly eats one of the shore party and then leads his tribe in the destruction of all the land-locked ships and the slaughter of their crews.
G aligns Antiphates with Hunger, The Decoy with Food, and the Lestrygonians with Teeth.
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /rickard/Hypermedia/HTML/Intro.html   (1299 words)

  
 Lecture 14
She at once called her husband Antiphates from the place of assembly, and forthwith he set about killing my men.
But Antiphates raised a hue and cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter - ogres, not men.
They threw vast rocks at us from the cliffs as though they had been mere stones, and I heard the horrid sound of the ships crunching up against one another, and the death cries of my men, as the Laestrygonians speared them like fishes and took them home to eat them.
www.uh.edu /~cldue/3308/lecture14.html   (855 words)

  
 Homer's "The Odysse"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He snatched up one of them, and began to make his dinner off him then and there, whereon the other two ran back to the ships as fast as ever they could.
But Antiphates raised a hue and cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter- ogres, not men.
When the morning of the third day came I took my spear and my sword, and went away from the ship to reconnoitre, and see if I could discover signs of human handiwork, or hear the sound of voices.
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 Zeuxippe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeuxippe was the daughter of Lamedon and Pheno, and with her husband Sicyon was the mother of Chthonophyle.
Zeuxippe was the daughter of Hippocoon and the mother of Oicles and Amphalces with Antiphates.
This article relating to Greek mythology is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeuxippe   (108 words)

  
 Odyssey
The party first met Antiphates' daughter, who directed them to her father's palace.
Before they met Antiphates, they met his wife, and realised to their horror that she was taller men.
Antiphates' wife immediately called out to her husband, where they immediately attack the Ithacan party, and ate the unfortunate Ithacans.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/odyssey.html   (5340 words)

  
 Book X. Homer. 1909-14. The Odyssey. The Harvard Classics
Odysseus, his entertainment by Aeolus, of whom he received a fair wind for the present, and all the rest of the winds tied up in a bag; which his men untying, flew out, and carried him back to Aeolus, who refused to receive him.
Now when they had entered the renowned house, they found his wife therein: she was huge of bulk as a mountain peak and was loathly in their sight.
Straightway she called the renowned Antiphates, her lord, from the assembly-place, and he contrived a pitiful destruction for my men.
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 Antiphates * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Antiphates * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
When Odysseus and his fleet of ships anchored in a narrow harbor, three men went ashore to look for the king of the land; the three scouts were led to the house of Antiphates by his daughter.
The name Antiphates might be translated as Unspeakable.
www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Antiphates_1.html   (285 words)

  
 The Island of the Winds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
We walked to land and met up with a strong beautiful girl, drawing water from outside the town.
She was the daughter of Antiphates, the Laestrygonian chief.
As we were running to our ship, Antiphates had gathered all the men (more like giants) in the town.
www.auburn.edu /~jfdrake/teachers/gainey/homer/aeolus.html   (391 words)

  
 The Odyssey by Homer eBook by BookRags
So I sent two of my company with an attendant to find out what sort of people the inhabitants were.
“The men when they got on shore followed a level road by which the people draw their firewood from the mountains into the town, till presently they met a young woman who had come outside to fetch water, and who was daughter to a Laestrygonian named Antiphates.
But Antiphates raised a hue-and-cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter—­ogres, not men.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/1727/86.html   (421 words)

  
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Antaeus A Rutulian pursued and presumably killed by Aeneas.
Antiphates An illegitimate son of Sarpedon killed by Turnus.
Another Antiphates appears in the Iliad, two more in the Odyssey.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jfarrell/temp/vp/july31/damnames.txt   (2595 words)

  
 Homer's "The Odysse"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Then he left the country and went to Argos, where it was ordained that he should reign over much people.
There he married, established himself, and had two famous sons Antiphates and Mantius.
Antiphates became father of Oicleus, and Oicleus of Amphiaraus, who was dearly loved both by Jove and by Apollo, but he did not live to old age, for he was killed in Thebes by reason of a woman's gifts.
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Antiphates became father of a chance, a very problematical chance, lay, and she determined to the word which all men are thinking, he has an insight which is terrible within and has generally disregarded external ceremonies and of the Achaeans shall slay you."
The god left him when he had given him these instructions, and at cause of _squabbling_, my subject shall _not be literary _at all.
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 Schulers Books (The Odyssey - 24/65)
We are certainly on an island, for I went as high as I could this morning, and saw the sea reaching all round it to the horizon; it lies low, but towards the middle I saw smoke rising from out of a thick forest of trees.'
"Their hearts sank as they heard me, for they remembered how they had been treated by the Laestrygonian Antiphates, and by the savage ogre Polyphemus.
They wept bitterly in their dismay, but there was nothing to be got by crying, so I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each; I gave one company to Eurylochus, while I took command of the other myself.
www.schulers.com /books/poetry/o/The_Odyssey/The_Odyssey24.htm   (1691 words)

  
 Homer's Odyssey
Antiphates, who had gone down to the sweet-running wellspring,
Artakie, whence they would carry their water back to the city.
At once she summoned famous Antiphates, her husband,
www.philipresheph.com /demodokos/odyssey/od15.htm   (329 words)

  
 Downloading - ANTIPHATES -- :: Welcome to UT2003 - UT2004 HQ :: - Unreal Tournament 2003 - ::: - Unreal Tournament 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
ANTIPHATES PRIME DIRECTIVE: SEEK, TARGET, FIRE, KILL.1.7 MB Screenshot:
TCs are the best on this one and all the animation has really brought Antiphates to life.
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 SLDC - Instruktur CV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
1996, Ketua Umum Antiphates Diving Club Sumatera Barat.
1997, Instruktur Selam Antiphates Diving Club, Bung Hatta Diving Club, Andalas Diving Club Sumatera Barat dan Tramp Diving Club Jakarta.
1998, Instruktur selam Antiphates Diving Club dalam pendidikan selam Dinas Pariwisata Daerah Tingkat I Banda Aceh di Pulau Rubiah, Sabang, DI.
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 The Odyssey by Homer
“She at once called her husband Antiphates from the place of assembly, and forthwith
He snatched up one of them, and began to make his
But Antiphates raised a hue and cry after them, and thousands of
www.pinkmonkey.com /dl/library1/odyssey72.asp   (644 words)

  
 Acanthis
A mythical race of cannibal giants appearing in Odyssey Book X.
Under their king Antiphates they captured and ate several of Ulysses’s men.
Traditionally located in Magna Graecia, but perhaps from regions further north.
www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk /OvTrisExPIndexLMNO.htm   (8570 words)

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