Nomenclature
Greek Name: Αἰθίοπες οἱ ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίης
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Cultural Notes
Geographical Notes
seventeenth Persian province
Citations in Herodotos
3.94
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: The 17th satrapy seems to correspond to Beloochistan. H. does not use the later name Gedrosia, for which cf. Arr. Anab. vi. 22 seq. On the coast of this country still lives a primitive race which is dark brown (the Brahvî, but v. i.); so too, on the south-east corner of Arabia, Curzon speaks of the scanty survivors of a ‘dark aboriginal race living in the rocks by C. Mussandum’ (ii. 447). This race had of course no connexion but that of colour with the Ethiopians of Africa (for whom cf. iii. 17. 1 n. and vii. 70. 1). Lassen (I. A. i. 390) thinks the dark race was perhaps once widely spread in Asia; he quotes the Mahâbhârata for ‘black dwellers in the Himalaya’. But he denies that it survives in Beloochistan.
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
Disambiguation
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