Nomenclature
Greek Name: Μύκοι
Latin Name: Myci
Toponyms:
Cultural Notes
Geographical Notes
fourteenth Persian province; a tribe probably in the south of Persia; Maka
Map of the expeditions of Scylax and Nearchus. Design Jona Lendering. Maka: satrapy of the ancient Achaemenid empire, modern Oman.
The name Maka for what is now called Oman is very ancient; in the third millennium, the Akkadians already knew a country called Magan, which, they claimed, had been conquered by their king Naram-Sin (2254-2218; ABC 20). Later, it was called Qade by the Babylonians; the Assyrian king Aššurbanipal (668-631 BCE) mentions a country Pade with a capital Iski, which must be Izki in Oman. The Persian name Maka is, therefore, an archaism (which is not uncommon in this period).
Citations in Herodotos
3.93 their tribute: 3.93
in Xerxes' army: 7.98
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 name of Μύκοι seems to survive in the modern Mekran, the southern province of Persia. Strabo (765) speaks of Macae on the coast of Arabia opposite.
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
Disambiguation
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