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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: Pliny the Elder asserted that Aethiops derived from the name of Hephaestu's son -Aethiops. The meaning seems to have morphed when the Greeks encountered the Aethiopians; the Aethiopians essentially re-defined the word merely by existing. Aethiopia then became to be used as a metonym for the darkest shade of black, and its usage makes it abundantly clear that it was reserved for a specific people , a specific nation -- one with a capital - Meroe. Lower "Nubians", the Nubae (south of Meroe), Blemmyes (North of Meroe), Megabari (eastern desert, North of Meroe) and the Troglodytes were not"Aethiopians", so this notion that "Aethiopia" was the Greek word for black is ludicrous. The Blemmyes (Beja) and the Megabari were recognised as ethnically distinct from the Aethiopians; they were however under the dominion of Aethiopia, and it is only in this sense that they were ever referred to as such -- similar to the usage of Roman. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] "The lower parts of the country on either side of Meroę, along the Nile towards the Red Sea, [b] are inhabited by Megabari and Blemmyes, who are subject to the Aethiopians and border on the Aegyptians[/b], and, along the sea, by Troglodytes (the Troglodytes opposite Meroę are a ten or twelve days' journey distant from the Nile), but the parts on the left side of the course of the Nile, in Libya, [b]are inhabited by Nubae, a large tribe, who, beginning at Meroę, extend as far as the bends of the river, and are not subject to the Aethiopians[/b] but are divided into several separate kingdoms. The extent of Aegypt along the sea from the Pelusiac to the Canobic mouth is one thousand three hundred stadia. This, then, is what Eratosthenes says. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/17A1*.html The ancient Greeks noted that the Aethiopians had people from among them that represented the extreme of blackness the same way they noted that the blonde, blue eyed Scythians represented the extreme of whiteness. [/QUOTE]I've finished here, but I took this into account; I plan on writing a paper on Aethiopia. what interests me is its original geography and this was well outside of Africa. All the original greek locations of mythological sites were localised in/around Greece, they shifted when the Greeks expanded their geographical horizon. My own theory is that the original Aethiopia was Paeonia/Macedonia. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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