Kietai
The Kietai ( Latin Cietae, Clitae , Greek Κλειταί Kleitaí , German also Ketai or Keten ) were a tribe of wild mountain dwellers in Cilikia Tracheia or Isauria in southern Asia Minor, only handed down to Tacitus . The area Kietis or Ketis is named after them.
The Kietai were temporarily subject to Archelaus of Cappadocia . A Roman punitive expedition against them is documented for the year 36 AD. Tacitus reports a raid by the Kietai on the coastal city of Anemurion in AD 52, in the course of which their leader Troxibor was killed by King Antiochus IV of Kommagene . The rest were "pacified".
literature
- Karl field: barbarian citizens. The Isaurians and the Roman Empire. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018899-6 , p. 35.
- William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Volume 1. 1854, p. 635 ( digitized version ).