Phthia
Φθία
(Φθία).
1. A daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, the Thessalian hipparch [MENON, No. 4], and wife of Aeacides, king of Epeirus, by whom she became the mother of the celebrated Pyrrhus, as well as of two daughters: DEYiDAMEJA, the wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Troias, of whom nothing more is known (Plit. Pyrrh. 1). Her portrait is found on some of the coins of her son Pyrrhus. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 170.)
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.