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][2] There is an epigram preserved recording this fact.[3]
- Abrotonon, the name of an hetaera. Plutarch refers to an Abrotonon from Thrace in his Erotikos (Ἐρωτικός);[4]. In the first dialogue of Dialogues of the Courtesans of Lucian the name of an hetaera named Abrotonon is also mentioned.[5]
- Abrotonum, a plant of this name is mentioned from Pliny the Elder in his work Natural History[6]
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 Θεμιστοκλής (Themistocles), chapt. 1
«νόθος δὲ πρὸς μητρός, ὡς λέγουσιν· Ἀβρότονον Θρήισσα γυνὴ γένος· ἀλλὰ τεκέσθαι τὸν μέγαν Ἕλλησίν φημί Θεμιστοκλέα. Φανίας μέντοι τὴν μητέρα τοῦ Θεμιστοκλέους οὐ Θρᾷτταν, ἀλλὰ Καρίνην, οὐδ' Ἀβρότονον ὄνομα, ἀλλ' Εὐτέρπην» - ^ Aelian, Varia Historia xii. 43 κεφ XLIII: Τινές εξ ασήμων περιφανείς γεγόνασι (Some are becoming great even though they come from unknown parents:
«...Θεμιστοκλής δέ ο τούς βαρβάρους καταναυμαχήσας, και μόνος συνιείς τάς τών Θεών εν τοίς χρησμοίς φωνάς, Θράττης υιός ήν, καί εκαλείτο η μήτηρ αυτού Αβρότονον...» (Themistocles, who has fought in naval battles with the barbars, and only him has understood the Gods' voices from the oracles, was a son of a Thracian and his mother was called Avrotonon) - ^ Plutarchi Eroticus et Eroticae narrationes, Plutarch, Typis et impensis Friderici Schulthessii, 1836, «...Άρα ουχ κράτιστον εξ αγοράς γαμείν Αβρότονόν τινά Θρήισσαν...», p. 16
- ^ Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans 1
- ^ Natural History, Pliny the Elder, vol. 4, chapt. 34, page. 334
Sources
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