Abrotonum
Abrotonum (Greek: Ἀβρότονον Abrotonon, pronounced Avrotonon, is a ancient Greek name of Thracian origin, as well as the name of a plant.
- Abrotonon, 6th-century BC was a Thracian the mother of Themistocles.[1] There is an epigram preserved recording this fact.[2]
- Abrotonon, the name of an hetaera. Plutarch refers to an Abrotonon from Thrace in his Erotikos (Ἐρωτικός);[3]. In the first dialogue of Dialogues of the Courtesans of Lucian the name of an hetaera named Abrotonon is also mentioned.[4]
- Abrotonum, a plant of this name is mentioned from Pliny the Elder in his work Natural History[5]
References
- ^ Smith, William (1867), "Abrotonum", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 3
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Plutarch, Themistocles 1; Athen. xiii. p. 576, c.; Aelian, Varia Historia xii. 43
- ^ p. 753, d.
- ^ Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 1
- ^ Natural History, Pliny the Elder, vol. 4, chapt. 34, page. 334
Sources
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