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Ancient literary sources (3)

Perseus Encyclopedia

Taphos

MEGANISSI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
Island colonized by Taphius, could not be taken while Pterelaus lived.

Strabo

Acarnania

They say that the people who were called both Taphians and Teleboans lived in Acarnania in earlier times, and that their leader Cephalus, who had been set up by Amphitryon as master over the islands about Taphos, gained the mastery over this country too.

TILEVOIDES ISLANDS (Island complex) IONIAN ISLANDS
The islands of the Taphians, or, in earlier times, of the Teleboans, among which was Taphos,. now called Taphius, were distinct from the Echinades; not in the matter of distances (for they lie near them), but in that they are classified as under different commanders, Taphians and Teleboans. Now in earlier times Amphitryon made an expedition against them with Cephalus the son of Deioneus, an exile from Athens, and gave over their government to him, but the poet says that they were marshalled under Mentes, calling them pirates, as indeed all the Teleboans are said to be pirates. So much, then, for the islands lying off Acarnania.

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