Phantasia (poet) Phantasia (poet) Phantasia is the name of an ancient Egyptian woman who was said to have been the author of the immediate sources of the two ancient Greek epics, "Iliad" and "Odyssey", attributed to Homer. According to a fiction retold by the Byzantine scholar Eustathius of Thessalonica and attributed by him to "a certain Naucrates", Phantasia, daughter of Nicarchus of Memphis, an inspired poet, wrote poems about the war in the plains of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus, and deposited these books in the temple of Hephaestus at Memphis. Homer afterwards visited the shrine, persuaded the priests to make
The Colossus of Rhodes (film) 1960s were set in either classical Greece or even earlier ("Hercules," "Ulysses," "The Giant of Marathon") or the later Roman period ("Ben Hur," "The Magnificent Gladiator," "Quo Vadis"). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are "Hannibal" (1959), "Revak the Rebel" and "Siege of Syracuse" (both 1960). A Greek military hero named Darios (Rory Calhoun) visits his uncle Lissipu (George Rigaud) on the island of Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossal statue of the god Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance