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Illyrian people
The Eneti were an
tribe or people who lived in a landlocked part of
Illyria north and/or northwest of
Macedonia in
classical antiquity . They were neighbors of the
Dardani and the
Triballi . Classical accounts of them frequently conflate them with the separate
Veneti around the northern
Adriatic Sea and the
Eneti around the southern
Black Sea .
Name
Eneti is the
Latin form of the
Greek Eneti (
Greek : Ἐνετοί , Enetoí ).
Herodotus calls them the "Eneti of the
Illyrians " (Ἰλλυριῶν Ἐνετοί , Illyriō̂n Enetoí ).
[1]
History
Along with the
Taulanti , the Eneti were the oldest attested peoples expressly considered
Illyrian in
early Greek historiography . They were neighbors of the
Dardani ,
Triballi ,
[3] and
Macedonians .
They are first attested in the 5th-century BC
History of the
Greek
ethnographic
historian
Herodotus .
[4] While discussing the former custom of
Babylonian villages' holding an
annual auction of young women for marriage ,
[5] he mentions that he has been told the Illyrian Eneti follow the same practice.
[1]
In his 2nd-century work on the 88–63 BC
Mithridatic Wars between the
Roman Republic and
Mithridates VI of
Pontus ,
Appian states at one point that the
consul
Sulla killed time while awaiting a reply from Mithridates by launching reprisal attacks from
Macedonia against the neighboring Eneti,
Dardani , and
Sintians , who had been raiding Macedonia before his arrival. Sulla is reported to have devastated their territory.
[8]
[9]
The 12th-century Commentaries on
Homer 's
Iliad written by
Eustathius of Thessalonica includes the note that the 6th-century
gazetteer Ethnica (Εθνικά , Ethniká ) written by
Stephanus of Byzantium mentioned the Eneti as dwelling beside the
Triballi .
[10]
[11]
See also
References
Citations
^
a
b
Herodotus ,
Hist. , Book I, Ch. 196.
^
Papazoglu 1978 , p. 218;
Polomé 1982 , p. 866;
Stipčević 1989 , p. 26;
Eichner 2004 , pp. 97, 99;
Šašel Kos 2005 , p. 235;
Demiraj 2006 , pp. 56–57;
Matijašić 2011 , p. 301.
^
Papazoglu 1978 , p. 177;
Matijašić 2011 , pp. 300–301;
Eichner 2004 , pp. 97, 99.
^ See also
slavery in antiquity .
^
Appian , Mithridatic Wars , Book VIII, Ch. 55.
^
Papazoglu 1978 , p. 177;
Matijašić 2011 , pp. 300–301.
^
Eustathius , Comm. Hom. Il. , Book II, Ch. 852, §1.
^
Matijašić 2011 , p. 301
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