Illyrian Eneti
TheEnetiwere antribe or peoplewho lived in a landlocked part ofIllyrianorth and/or northwest ofMacedoniainclassical antiquity.They were neighbors of theDardaniand theTriballi.Classical accounts of them frequently conflate them with the separateVenetiaround the northernAdriatic Seaand theEnetiaround the southernBlack Sea.
Name
[edit]Enetiis theLatinform of theGreekEneti(Greek:Ἐνετοί,Enetoí).Herodotuscalls them the "Eneti of theIllyrians"(Ἰλλυριῶν Ἐνετοί,Illyriō̂n Enetoí).[1]
History
[edit]Along with theTaulanti,the Eneti were the oldest attested peoples expressly consideredIllyrianinearly Greek historiography.[2]They were neighbors of theDardani,Triballi,[3]andMacedonians.
They are first attested in the 5th-century BCHistoryof theGreekethnographichistorianHerodotus.[4]While discussing the former custom ofBabylonianvillages' holding anannual auction of young women for marriage,[5]he mentions that he has been told the Illyrian Eneti follow the same practice.[1][6][7]
In his 2nd-century work on the 88–63 BCMithridatic Warsbetween theRoman RepublicandMithridates VIofPontus,Appianstates at one point that theconsulSullakilled time while awaiting a reply from Mithridates by launching reprisal attacks fromMacedoniaagainst the neighboring Eneti,Dardani,andSintians,who had been raiding Macedonia before his arrival. Sulla is reported to have devastated their territory.[8][9]
The 12th-centuryCommentaries onHomer'sIliadwritten byEustathius of Thessalonicaincludes the note that the 6th-centurygazetteerEthnica(Εθνικά,Ethniká) written byStephanus of Byzantiummentioned the Eneti as dwelling beside theTriballi.[10][11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^abHerodotus,Hist.,Book I, Ch. 196.
- ^Eichner 2004,pp. 97, 99.
- ^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 alsoslavery in antiquity.
- ^Papazoglu 1978,p. 177.
- ^Matijašić 2011,pp. 300–301.
- ^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
Bibliography
[edit]- Demiraj, Shaban (2006).The origin of the Albanians: linguistically investigated.Academy of Sciences of Albania.ISBN9789994381715.Archived fromthe originalon 20 November 2020.
- Eichner, Heiner (2004). "Illyrisch – die unbekannte Sprache". In Eichner, Heiner (ed.).Die Illyrer. Archäologische Funde des 1. Vorchristlichen Jahrtausends aus Albanien(in German). Museum für Urgeschichte Asparn an der Zaya. pp. 92–117.ISBN3-85460-215-4.
- Matijašić, Ivan (2011).""Shrieking like Illyrians": Historical geography and the Greek perspective of the Illyrian world in the 5th century BC ".Arheološki Vestnik.62.Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts: 289–316.
- Papazoglu, Fanula(1978).The Central Balkan Tribes in pre-Roman Times: Triballi, Autariatae, Dardanians, Scordisci and Moesians.Amsterdam: Hakkert.ISBN9789025607937.
- Polomé, Edgar(1982). "Balkan Languages (Illyrian, Thracian and Daco-Moeasian)". In J. Boardman; I. E. S. Edwards; N. G. L. Hammond; E. Sollberger (eds.).The Cambridge Ancient History: The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.Vol. III (part 1) (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press.ISBN0521224969.
- Šašel Kos, Marjeta (2005).Appian and Illyricum.Narodni muzej Slovenije.ISBN961616936X.
- Stipčević, Aleksandar(1989).Iliri: povijest, život, kultura(in Croatian). Zagreb: Školska knjiga.ISBN9788603991062.
