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Phaedimus

Φαίδιμος

(Φαίδιμος), the name of two mythical personages, the one a son of Amphion and Niobe (Apollod. 3.5.6), and the other a king of the Sidonians, who hospitably received Menelaus on his return from Troy. (Hom. Od. 15.117.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.