A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Phantasia

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PHANTASIA,

Daughter of Nicanchus of Memphis, in Egypt. Chiron, a celebrated personage of antiquity, asserted that Phantasia wrote a poem on the Trojan war, and another on the return of Ulysses to Ithaca, from which Homer copied the greater part of the Iliad and Odyssey, when he visited Memphis, where these poems were deposited. She lived in the twelfth century before Christ.