Agrianes (tribe)
The Agrianes ( Greek Ἀγριᾶνες ) were a Thracian or Peonian tribe . His main settlement area was on the upper Strymon in today's Bulgaria .
The Agrianes are first mentioned in connection with the campaigns of the Persian general Megabazos in 511 BC. Mentioned. Later they belonged to the empire of the Odrys and as early as 352 BC. The Agrianes were among the allies of Philip II of Macedonia . Langaros , King of the Agrianes, supported Alexander the Great , who used the Agrianes light infantry ( Peltasts ) armed with javelins on his campaigns .
Until the fall of Macedonia in the wars against Rome in the middle of the 2nd century BC. The Agrianes served as mercenaries in the armies of the Hellenistic rulers. From this time on they were ousted by the Dentheletai .
literature
- Christo M. Danov : Old Thrace. 1976, pp. 105-107
- Christo M. Danoff: Agrianes. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 143 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strabo Geographika p. 331; Herodotus Histories 5.16; Thucydides Peloponnesian War 2.96; Arrian Anabasis 1.5.1-10
- ↑ Titus Livius 33.18; Polybios 2.65, 10.42