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Abantians

Nomenclature

Greek Name: Ἄβας, ἄβαντες

Latin Name: Abantes

Toponyms:

Cultural Notes

have no right to the name Ionian

Geographical Notes

a people of Euboea

Citations in Herodotos

1.146

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

Paus. 5.22.4
join Ionian emigration: Paus. 7.2.4
settle in Chios: Paus. 7.4.9

Other Commentary


Perseus Encyclopedia:

W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotos: Ἄβαντες. Aristotle (in Strabo, 445) said this tribe were Thracians, who passed from Abae in Phocis to Euboea.

Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
 

Disambiguation

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