Magnetes

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The Magnetes (Greek: Μάγνητες) were an

Greek colonisation by founding two prosperous cities in Western Anatolia, Magnesia on the Maeander and Magnesia ad Sipylum
.

Mythology

According to the

Dorus, Xuthus (with his sons Ion and Achaeus) and Aeolos, filled out the set of progenitors of the ancient tribes that formed the Greek/Hellenic
nation.

Family tree

DeucalionPyrrhaZeus
Hellen
(hellenes)
ThyiaPandora II
Dorus
(dorians)
XuthusAeolus
(aeolians)
Magnes
(magnetes)
Macedon
(macedones)
Graecus
(graeci)
Achaeus
(achaeans)
Ion
(ionians)
The genealogical relation between the early Greek tribes within the family of Deucalion.[2]

References

  1. . Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. Pandora II, Deucalion's daughter, and Zeus ( fr. 5).; Magnes and Macedon, sons of Thyia, Deucalion's daughter, and Zeus ( fr. 7).; Dorus and Aeolus are sons of Hellen by the nymph Othreis ( fr. 9)., as is Xuthus, who, marrying Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus
    , sired Achaeus and Ion (fr. 10(a)23 OCT).