Nomenclature
Greek Name: ἀνδρο-φάγος , ον
Latin Name: Androphagi
Toponyms:
Cultural Notes
have a distinct way of life and are not Scythian, speak a distinct language
Geographical Notes
a people adjacent to Scythia,very far north
Citations in Herodotos
Key Passages in English Translation
English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Retreived from <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu>
Key Passages in Greek
Other Testimonia
Other Commentary
Perseus Encyclopedia:
W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotos: Neumann (p. 212) thinks that the Androphagi were Finns, quoting evidence that this people were said to practise cannibalism even in the Middle Ages; perhaps they are the ancestors of the Mordvinians, a Finnish tribe still surviving in the Volga basin. This seems more probable than the view of Müllenhoff (u.s.) that they were not really much different from their neighbors, and that the story of their cannibalism is an invention; he quotes, however, several authorities for cannibalism being imputed to northern races, e.g. ARist. Nic. Ethics, vii 5 (1148b) Strabo quotes (302) Ephorus for this cannibalism, but in 201 he throws some doubt on it, both in Scythia and in Ireland.
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
Disambiguation
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