Edoner
The Edonians (also Edonen , Edoni , ancient Greek Ἤδωνες or Ἠδῶνες) were a Thracian tribe who originally lived in Mygdonia , between the rivers Axios and Strymon , in what is now the prefecture of Thessaloniki . Lycurgus was a mythical king of the Edons.
history
The Edonians were expelled from Mygdonia by Aklexandros, son of Perdikas II , and his Argive ancestors and settled in the lower Strymontal, southwest of the Pangaion. In ancient times they were the immediate western neighbors of the Thasitic Peraia . Herodotus reports that Xerxes found them in the eastern Strymon area. When the Athenians first tried to found a colony in the Strymon Delta near Eion , it was the Persian army under Megabazos in 513/512 BC. BC succeeded in subjugating the Edonians with ease. Megabazos warned Darius to allow Histaios to found a city in the Edon region . Aristagoras, Son of Histaios, was slain by the Edonians in the region of Myrkinos . The unhindered passage of the Persian army under Xerxes through the land of the Edonians was ensured by the previous undertakings of Mardonios. Although the Persian power over the Thracian tribes had established itself, a few years later they offered fierce resistance against the Athenians, first when it was Kimon in 470/69 BC. BC succeeded in subjugating the Persian-occupied Thracian Eion and penetrating further into the Thracian inland to plunder Thracian villages there, and then in 469/68 BC. When the Athenians tried to settle east of the Strymon estuary after the Persian Wars and in 465/4 BC. BC were repulsed by the Edonians on the Drabeskos River with great losses while advancing into the interior of the Thracians . The ancient cities of Amphipolis with the port city of Eion, Drabeskos and Myrkinos are witnesses of Edonian culture.
literature
- A. Pavlopoulou: Thrace with Herodotus: Representation of an intermediate world, studies on Herodotus history, geography and ethnography of Thrace , inaugurial dissertation to obtain a doctorate in philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Institute for Ancient History, Munich 2006