56/122 _Phaeacia_ means _Corcyra_, and _Chaonia_ is a district of Epirus. Its chief harbour was Buthrotum. _Hermione_ was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. He slew his mother on account of her treacherous murder of Agamemnon when the latter returned home from Troy, and killed Pyrrhus for having deprived him of his promised bride, Hermione. |