Pygela
Πύγελα or Φύγελα | |
Ephesos |
Pygela (
The ruins are right down on Pygela Plaji, "Pygela Beach." They are obviously partly drowned.According to
Etymology
The ancient authors provided it with a folk-etymology based on its obvious resemblance to Greek backside. It is said to have taken its name because some of the men of Agamemnon remained there after they had had a disease of the buttocks (πυγαί).[12] Harpocration wrote that according to Theopompos it took its name when some of the men with Agamemnon stayed there on account of a disease to do with their buttocks (pygai, πυγαί).[13] Suda wrote the same about the name of the place.[14]
The folk etymology is, of course, ridiculous, as it was always meant to be, in the tradition of naming subject places and peoples with derogatory
Strabo wrote that Demetrius was speaking of the existence of Amazons near Pygela.[15]
History
In the "Indictment of
References
- ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Pygela
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 1.2.2.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiv. p.639. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Πύγελα.
- ^ Harpocrat. s.v. Πύγελα; Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.31.
- ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax p. 37; Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 1.17.
- Ab urbe condita Libri[History of Rome]. Vol. 37.1.
- De Materia Medica5.12
- ^ ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Suda, pi.3109
- ^ HARPOKRATION, LEXICON OF THE TEN ORATORS, § p119
- ^ Suda Encyclopedia, § pi.3109
- ^ Strabo, Geography, book 12, chapter 3
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pygela". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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