The Herodotus Encyclopedia. Группа авторов
take as fact Beloch’s hypothesis (1912, I.1: 140) that an Aeolian League existed with a religious center at Gryneia. There is no ancient evidence to support this proposal.
SEE ALSO: Boeotians; Ethnicity; Hellas
REFERENCES
1 Beloch, Karl Julius. 1912. Griechische Geschichte. 2nd edition, 4 vols. Strasbourg: Trübner.
2 Hall, Jonathan M. 2002. Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3 Hertel, D. 2007. “Die aiolische Seidlungsraum (Aiolis) am Übergang von der Bronze‐ zur Eisenzeit.” In Frühes Ionien: Eine Bestandsaufnahme, edited by J. Cobet, V. von Graeve, W.‐D. Niemeier, and K. Zimmermann, 97–122. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
4 Parker, H. N. 2008. “The Linguistic Case for the Aiolian Migration Reconsidered.” Hesperia 77.3: 431–64.
5 Rose, C. B. 2008. “Separating Fact from Fiction in the Aiolian Migration.” Hesperia 77.3: 399–430.
FURTHER READING
1 Bérard, J. 1959. “La migration éolienne.” RA 1: 1–28.
2 Cook, J. M. 1975. “Aeolic Settlement in Lesbos and the Adjacent Coastlands.” In CAH3 II.2, 776–82.
AEOLIDAE (Αἰολίδαι?)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
A town in PHOCIS between DAULIS and DELPHI which was burned by the Persians in 480 BCE, along with Daulis and PANOPEUS (8.35.1). Herodotus uses only the genitive form of the city‐ethnic, Αἰολιδέων (Aiolideōn). Aeolidae is not mentioned by other ancient sources, though it may perhaps be the “Cyparissus” in HOMER’s Iliad (2.519). It was probably located in the modern Zimeno pass and not re‐built after the PERSIAN WARS (McInerney 1999, 303–6), but the identification remains uncertain. It is not known whether the city had any connection with the AEOLIANS, one of the three major Greek ethnic groups.
SEE ALSO: Ethnicity
REFERENCE
1 McInerney, Jeremy. 1999. The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis. Austin: University of Texas Press.
FURTHER READING
1 IACP no. 170 (409).
AEOLUS (Αἴολος, ὁ)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
Patronymic, mythical, father of ATHAMAS (7.197.1 and 3). This Aeolus was a son of HELLEN and eponymous ancestor of the AEOLIANS, one of the three major Greek ethnic groups along with DORIANS and IONIANS (Hes. F9 M‐W). Other mythical figures by this name appear, including the ruler of the WINDS (Hom. Od. 10.1–79), and they seem to have been confused at an early date (Gantz, EGM 167–69; cf. Diod. Sic. 4.67.2–6).
SEE ALSO: Ethnicity; Myth
FURTHER READING
1 Hall, Jonathan M. 2002. Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, 161–71. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
AËROPUS (Ἀέροπος, ὁ)
EMILY VARTO
Dalhousie University
The name of two descendants of TEMENUS mentioned by Herodotus in connection to the founding of the Argead dynasty of Macedon. The earlier Aëropus was one of three Argive brothers (Aëropus, PERDICCAS, and GAUANES) who were exiled from ARGOS and came to MACEDONIA, where Perdiccas founded the Argead dynasty (8.137–39). The later Aëropus was a descendant of this Perdiccas and is cited among the ancestors of Alexander I by Herodotus (8.139). The name Aëropus occurs again in the Macedonian royal family of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE (LGPN IV, 8 (no. 1)).
SEE ALSO: Alexander son of Amyntas; Genealogies
FURTHER READING
1 Sprawski, Sławomir. 2010. “The Early Temenid Kings to Alexander I.” In A Companion to Ancient Macedonia, edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington, 127–44. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell.
2 Thomas, Carol. 2007. Alexander the Great in his World. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell.
AËROPUS (2) , see EËROPUS
AESANIAS (Αἰσανίας, ὁ)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
Patronymic, father of GRINNUS, king of THERA (4.150.2). His ancestors include THERAS, former regent of SPARTA and founder of Thera, and through him the mythical CADMUS SON OF AGENOR. Nothing more is known of Aesanias.
FURTHER READING
1 Corcella in ALC, 676–67.
AESCHINES (Αἰσχίνης, ὁ)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
When the Persians sailed against EUBOEA in 490 BCE, the Eretrians requested aid from ATHENS. However, Herodotus reports, the Eretrians were still undecided about whether to resist or submit. When Athenian forces arrived, Aeschines, a leading citizen of ERETRIA, warned them of the situation and begged them to leave before they too could be destroyed by the Persians (6.100). After a six‐day SIEGE, Eretria was betrayed by two other leading citizens, EUPHORBUS and PHILAGRUS (6.101.2); the Persians sacked the city and enslaved the populace, who were eventually relocated to ARDERICCA near SUSA (6.119). Aeschines was a common name at Eretria; nothing more is known of this man (LGPN I, 20 (no. 11)).
SEE ALSO: Ionian Revolt; Migration; Persia; Prisoners of War; Slavery; Treachery
FURTHER READING
1 Hurst, André. 1978. “La prise d’Erétrie chez Hérodote (6, 100–101).” MH 35.4: 202–11.
AESCHRAEUS (Αἰσχραῖος, ὁ)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
Patronymic, father of LYCOMEDES, Athenian, probably of the DEME Phlya (8.11.2). The name “Aeschraeus” appears on the fragment of a casualty list for the Battle of MARATHON discovered in 2000 (SEG 56‐430), but this is unlikely to be the same man given the Athenian tribal affiliation (Erechtheis) of that list.
SEE ALSO: Athens; Democracy
AESCHRIONIAN TRIBE (ἡ Αἰσχριωνίη ϕυλή)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
Herodotus refers (3.26.1) to “Samians said to be of the Aeschrionian tribe (phylē)” who inhabit OASIS—also called ISLAND OF THE BLESSED—in the DESERT west of Egyptian THEBES, a seven days’ march. These Samians may have ended up at this desert outpost after serving as MERCENARIES for the Cyrenean