{"id":18312,"date":"2024-02-20T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:39:31","slug":"ethiopians-alexander-polyhistor-on-memnonians-as-wild-and-war-like-mid-first-century-bce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/02\/ethiopians-alexander-polyhistor-on-memnonians-as-wild-and-war-like-mid-first-century-bce\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopians: Alexander Polyhistor on Memnonians as wild and war-like (mid-first century BCE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Ancient authors: <\/em><\/strong>Alexander Polyhistor, <em>FGrHist <\/em>273 F130, as cited by Stephanos of Byzantion, <em>Ethnika<\/em> at <em>Memnones<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/fgrhist-die-fragmente-der-griechischen-historiker-vols-1-8\">link<\/a> to <em>FGrHist<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Comments: <\/em><\/strong>This is apparently the only surviving comment of Polyhistor on the Ethiopians.\u00a0 Although he often tends towards the idea of wise barbarians with respect to the elites of certain peoples, these Ethiopians evidently do not fall under that category for Polyhistor. The designation Memnonians has to do with the legendary king Memnon of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Memnonians (<em>Memnones<\/em>): An Ethiopian people (<em>ethnos<\/em>), a word which, as <strong>Polyhistor<\/strong> says, means &#8220;wild or warlike and hard to deal with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u039c\u03ad\u03bc\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2\u00b7 \u1f14\u03b8\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u0391\u1f30\u03b8\u03b9\u03bf\u03c0\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03bd, \u1f43 \u1f11\u03c1\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd\u03b5\u03cd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9, \u1f61\u03c2 \u1f41 \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03c5\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03c9\u03c1 \u03c6\u03b7\u03c3\u03af\u03bd, \u1f00\u03b3\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f22 \u03bc\u03b1\u03c7\u03af\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c7\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u03c0\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source of the translation<\/em><\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Translation\u00a0by Harland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient authors: Alexander Polyhistor, FGrHist 273 F130, as cited by Stephanos of Byzantion, Ethnika at Memnones (link to FGrHist). Comments: This is apparently the only surviving comment of Polyhistor on the Ethiopians.\u00a0 Although he often tends towards the idea of wise barbarians with respect to the elites of certain peoples, these Ethiopians evidently do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,222,299,129,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-02-greek-and-roman-ethnography-on-barbarians","category-b-southern-peoples","category-ancient-ethnography-ethnographic-culture","category-ethiopians-kushites-nubians","category-ethnicity-ancient-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18312"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19348,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions\/19348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}