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
Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) to repel them through the use of Scythians to maintain his Greek troops disciplined and stable. Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) The Siege of Theodosia in was the third and final siege by the Bosporan Kingdom under Leukon I against the city of Theodosia, a probable colony of Heraclea Pontica, who had aided the city in two previous sieges. In the first siege, Satyros I, the father of Leukon, besieged the city but lost his life there at the age of 81. After having been tricked by Tynnichus, Leukon retreated back to Panticapaeum. After his defeat, Leukon had to