Rhadamans

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The Rhadamans were a fabulous Arab people.

In the natural history of Pliny ( Naturalis Historia 6:32, 6158) which are Rhadamaei as neighbors of Minaeans mentioned.

In the Dionysiaka of the Nonnos of Panopolis , Dionysus instructs the "rambling people of the Rhadamans" to build a fleet for the war against the Indian king Deriades (21.306 ff).

Both authors establish a connection between the peoples of the Rhadamans and the Mineans and the legendary Cretan rulers Rhadamanthys and Minos . Both peoples originally lived in Crete and came to what is now Yemen through displacement or resettlement . It is an assumption that these are relationships constructed in retrospect due to the similarity of names. In any case, in Hellenistic times there was evidence of relations between Ma'in , the kingdom of the Mineans, and the Aegean .

literature

  • Henry W. Prescott: Notes and Queries on Utopias in Plautus. In: The American Journal of Philology , Vol. 29, No. 1 (1908), pp. 60f.