Milyans

Nomenclature

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Cultural Notes

used to live in Milyas and be called Solymians

Geographical Notes

first Persian province

Citations in Herodotos

3.90, 1.173

Key Passages in English Translation

 

English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Retreived from <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu>

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Other Commentary


Perseus Encyclopedia:

W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotos: Milyas (iii. 90. 1) is in historic times the high ground north-east of Lycia, as far as Pisidia (Strabo, 631). As no Lycian remains are found here, it was inhabited probably by a distinct people (cf. Arr. Anab. i. 24. 5 ἔστι μὲν τῆς μεγάλης Φρυγίας, συνετέλει δὲ ἐς τὴν Λυκίαν, οὕτως ἐκ βασιλέως μεγάλου τεταγμένον).‘Solymi’ seems to be the name of the original inhabitants, who were driven into the mountains; so in Il. vi. 184, 204, they are enemies of the Lycians. Strabo (631) says the neighbouring tribe, the Kabaleis (iii. 90 n.), were thought to be ‘Solymi’, and Steph. Byz. (s. v. Πισιδία) says the same of the Pisidians.

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

Disambiguation

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