Odomants

The Odomanten were a Thracian tribe. They first settled west of the Strymon on the Chalkidiki peninsula .

From there they were displaced by the Macedonians into the landscape east of the Strymon. In the classical era they lived at the western foot of the Pangaion Mountains . Thucydides testifies that in 429 B.C.E. BC and during the Odrysen campaign of Sitalkes against the Macedonians settled in this area. The Odomanten were involved in the exploitation of the mineral resources in the Pangaion and were thus probably also oppressed by the Thasites in the classical epoch . Megabazos had difficulties with the odoms in his ventures in Thrace. Odomanten King Polles provided a large mercenary army for the Thracian campaign of the Spartan Kleon . This and other Thracian tribes of the Strymon area performed in 520 BC. Resistance to Persian rule and the campaign of Xerxes I against Greece.

In Roman times the settlement area of ​​the Odomanten was named as Terra Odomantica .

literature

• Aspasia Pavlopoulou: Thrace with Herodotus. Representation of an intermediate world. Studies of Herodotus history, geography and ethnography of Thrace . Dissertation Munich 2006, p. 433.