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An Athenian slain at a feast by the Thirty Tyrants of Athens (c.404–403 bc). Dorigen records that his daughters were forced to dance naked over his blood, but that they drowned themselves rather than lose their virginity (V.1369ff.).
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From: Phidon in The Oxford Companion to Chaucer »
Subjects: Literary Studies (Early and Medieval).
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