Doloper

The Doloper ( Greek  Δόλοπες / Dolopes ) were a Hellenic tribe in ancient Greece , which inhabited the region named after them Dolopia (Δολοπία) in southwest Thessaly .

geography

The settlement area extended roughly from Acheloos to Ainianien and from Tymphrestos to Athamanien . Philippson describes the area, with the Agrafa Mountains in the center, as “extremely wild and impassable mountainous country, cut into deep gorges by rivers” and sums it up: “The country is the most remote, barren and impassable area in all of Greece, so it is always an area free, warlike, but poor and raw pastoral tribes remained ”.

There were no bigger cities, the main town was probably Ktimene (Kymene). Today, however, it is just as impossible to locate as the traditional places Menelaïs and Ellopia.

history

Like all the other small tribes in the region, the Doloper entered into changing alliances. Already in the army of Xerxes they are said to have been in 480 BC. Be drawn along. In the winter of 420/419 BC They fought together with Malians , Ainians and Thessalians against Herakleia in Trachis . In the Lamic War they were 323/22 BC. Allies of the Athenians.

Dolopia was one of the twelve founding nations of the Delphic Amphictyony . In addition to cultic and military duties, this also meant that the Doloper were punished by the federal government for piracy, which they - as the first settlers there - carried out from Skyros .

The country remained a constant bone of contention between the Aitolians and the Macedonian kings, with whom the Doloper alternately (and probably not always voluntarily) made pacts. In 174 BC They rebelled against Macedonia and killed the prefect appointed from there, whereupon they were again subjugated by Perseus two years later . Dolopia was last annexed by the Romans . In the fight against Pompey they are mentioned as allies of Caesar ; in Augustan times they had already disappeared as a separate people.

mythology

In the legends, Dolops is the namesake of the tribe. Ovid names Amyntor as the king of the dolopers. After the library of Apollodorus , Phoinix is a sub-king appointed by Peleus ; at Pindar he appears as the leader of the Doloper before Troy . The Argonaut Eurydamas is said to have been born in Ktimene .

literature

• Julius Miller : Dolopes. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 1289 f.
• Alfred Philippson : Dolopia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 1290 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Philippson: Dolopia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 1290 f. (here: 1291).
2. ↑ Herodotus , Histories 7, 132 and 7, 185.
3. ^ Thucydides , Peloponnesian War 5, 51.
4. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 41, 22, 4 and 42, 41, 14; Appian , Macedonike 11, 6.
5. ^ Appian, Civil Wars 2, 70.
6. ^ Pausanias , Travels in Greece 10, 8, 3.
7. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Dolops 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1196 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ Adolf Schirmer : Amyntor 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 329 ( digitized version ).
9. ^ Libraries of Apollodo 3, 13, 8, 3.
10. ^ Pindar at Strabo , Geographika 9, 431.
11. ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes : Argonautika ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Web link)