In
Greek mythology
A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical co ...
, Phidippus (
Greek Φείδιππος "he who spares the horses") was a son of
Thessalus and
Chalciope and brother of
Antiphus and
Nesson.
Mythology
Phidippus was among the
suitors of Helen and accordingly participated in the
Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has ...
; he and his brother Antiphus led a contingent of thirty ships from
Nisyrus ''Nisyrus'' may mean:
* ''Nisyrus (insect)'', the genus of stick insects in subfamily Xeroderinae
The XeroderinaeGünther (1953) ''Beiträge zur Entomologie, Berlin'' 3(5): 547. are a sub-family of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae: genera ...
,
Carpathus,
Casus,
Cos and
Calydnae. After the war and the storm that scattered the Greek ships, Pheidippus and the Coans settled at
Andros, while Antiphus went to the land of the
Pelasgians
The name Pelasgians ( grc, Πελασγοί, ''Pelasgoí'', singular: Πελασγός, ''Pelasgós'') was used by classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergenc ...
and, having taken possession of it, called it
Thessaly
Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thes ...
after their father. In another account, Antiphus and Phidippus were said to have invaded the land together; it is also reported that the region was believed to have had another name, Nessonis, after their third brother Nesson.
Strabo
Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-sighted that he could see ...
, ''Geography'', 9. 5. 23
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Achaeans (Homer)