Mossynoics

The Mossynoics ( Gr. Μοσ (σ) ύνοικοι Mos (s) ýnoikoi "wooden tower inhabitants ", Latin Mossyn (oec) i) were a tribe of Asia Minor on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea . Their settlement area was west of Kerasus and was adjacent to the Chalybers and Tibarenes . Together with the Tiberians, Macroners , Moschers and Marians , they formed the 19th satrapy in the Persian Empire .

The Mossynoics were considered warlike and uncivilized by ancient authors. For example, Apollonios of Rhodes tells ( Argonautika 2,1019-1025) that they copulated in public .

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Herodotus , 3.94
Xenophon , Anabasis 5,4,2ff.
Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika 2,379-381b and 1015-1029

Remarks

↑ cf. Xenophon, Anabasis 5,4,2ff. and Apollonios of Rhodes, Arg. 2,379-381b: from gr. μόσ (σ) υν mós (s) yn "tower-like wooden house" and οἰκεῖν oikeîn "living"

[1] . Xenophon, Anabasis 5,4,2ff. and Apollonios of Rhodes, Arg. 2,379-381b: from gr. μόσ (σ) υν mós (s) yn "tower-like wooden house" and οἰκεῖν oikeîn "living"