A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(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.)