9.72.2).
SEE ALSO: Fame; Narratology; Peloponnesian War; Sparta; Time
REFERENCES
1 Herman, Gabriel. 1989. “Nikias, Epimenides and the Question of Omissions in Thucydides.” CQ 39.1: 83–93.
2 Wilson, N. G. 2015. Herodotea. Studies on the Text of Herodotus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
FURTHER READING
1 Flower, Michael A., and John Marincola, eds. 2002. Herodotus: Histories Book IX, 219–21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
AENEIA (Αἴνεια, ἡ)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
City on the THERMAIC GULF in the region of Chalcidice, probably the modern Nea Michaniona (BA 50 C4). XERXES’ fleet picks up troops from Aeneia and other CITIES in the region after it passes through the ATHOS canal in 480 BCE (7.123.2). Aeneia claimed to have been founded by Aeneas after he fled TROY (Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 1.47.6); the hero appears on sixth‐century coins, carrying his father Anchises on his shoulders. The city became a member of the DELIAN LEAGUE.
SEE ALSO: Chalcidians in Thrace; Crossaea
FURTHER READING
1 Erskine, Andrew. 2001. Troy Between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power, 93–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2 IACP no. 557 (822).
AENESIDEMUS (Αἰνησίδημος, ὁ)
CHRISTOPHER BARON
University of Notre Dame
1) Aenesidemus, son of PATAECUS, served as a member of the bodyguard of HIPPOCRATES (4), tyrant of GELA in SICILY in the late 490s BCE (7.154.1). Herodotus mentions him in connection with his narrative of GELON (who also served in that bodyguard) and Gelon’s rise to power as TYRANT, first of Gela and then SYRACUSE. Other sources indicate that Aenesidemus also attempted to take control of Gela after Hippocrates’ death but was beaten to the punch by Gelon (e.g., Arist. Rh. 1.12/1373a); a much later source, but perhaps preserving reliable information, claims that Aenesidemus thereafter left for RHODES (his homeland?) and established himself as tyrant there (see Luraghi 1993). Pausanias (5.22.7) refers to a tyrant of LEONTINI named Aenesidemus; most scholars identify him with the son of Pataecus and imagine that he ruled Leontini at the behest of Hippocrates. Our texts of Herodotus’ Histories give none of these details, but some editors suspect a lacuna at this point, on the basis of a textual difficulty.
2) Aenesidemus, father of THERON tyrant of ACRAGAS in Sicily in the 480s BCE
(7.165). Most scholars find it unlikely that this is the same man as Aenesidemus (1) (7.154.1). The CHRONOLOGY, for one, would make it strange: Theron was probably born in the 530s, while Aenesidemus (1) served in the bodyguard of the tyrant Hippocrates in the 490s (Dunbabin 1948, 383–84).
SEE ALSO: Cadmus and Scythes of Cos
REFERENCES
1 Dunbabin, T. J. 1948. The Western Greeks: The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480 BC. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
2 Luraghi, Nino. 1993. “Enesidemo di Pateco (per la storia della tirannide in Sicilia).” In Hesperìa, 3: Studi sulla grecità di Occidente, edited by Lorenzo Braccesi, 53–65. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider.
AENIANES (Αἰνιῆνες OR Ἐνιῆνες, οἱ)
ANDREW NICHOLS
University of Florida
A tribe located in the upper SPERCHEIUS Valley, on and below the northern slopes of Mt. OETA (BA 55 C3, Ainis; Strabo 9.4.10/C427). Their main city was Hypata. Herodotus calls them Enianes (’Ενιῆνες), following the spelling used by HOMER. They medized with other Thessalian tribes when XERXES was in MACEDONIA (7.132) and fought on the Persian side in 480 BCE (7.185). The Aenianes originally dwelled west of Mt. OSSA in Perrhaebia (Hom. Il. 2.749; cf. Strabo 9.5.20/C441), but were driven south by the LAPITHS (cf. Plut. Quaest. Graec. 13). They were one of the original members of the Amphictyony (Paus. 10.8.2; Aeschines (2.116) calls them “Oetaeans”). Although they were living in the Spercheius Valley as early as the fifth century, Herodotus follows Homer in referring to them in conjunction with the PERRHAEBIANS (along with the DOLOPES, their neighbors to the west in the Spercheius Valley, and the Magnesians). The Aenianes were not PERIOECI, or subjugated neighbors, of the Thessalians but independent ALLIES, acting of their own volition (cf. Thuc. 5.51). They were later destroyed by the AETOLIANS and the Athamanians (Strabo 9.4.11/C427).
SEE ALSO: Amphictyones; Medize; Thessaly
FURTHER READING
1 Béquignon, Yves. 1937. La vallée du Spercheios des origines au IVe siècle. Études d'archéologie et de topographie. Paris: de Boccard.
2 Sakellariou, Michel. 1984. “La migration des Aenianes.” In Aux origines de l'hellénisme: la Crète et la Grèce. Hommage à Henri van Effenterre, edited by Centre Gustave Glotz, 173–80. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne.
AENUS (Αἶνος)
MATTHEW A. SEARS
University of New Brunswick
City in southeastern THRACE, north of the Hellespontine CHERSONESE and along the HEBRUS RIVER (BA 51 G3; Müller II, 773–77), which forms the border between the modern nations of Greece and Turkey. Located on a plain and at the mouth of a major river, Aenus was strategically located and served as a mustering point for exports from further inland, including Thracian slaves and Thracian MERCENARIES.
Aenus is mentioned in HOMER’s Iliad (4.519–20) as the home of the Thracian ruler Peiroös and a contingent of valiant Thracian warriors. In historical times, the city was in the territory of the APSINTHIANS, a Thracian group best known as the rivals of the nearby DOLONCIANS, who inhabited the Chersonese. Aenus was eventually colonized by Aeolian Greeks, though Thracian connections in the area remained strong. Aenus figures little in the work of Herodotus (4.90.2; 7.58.3). Though Aenus was one of the first sites in EUROPE reached by XERXES in 480 BCE, the Persian king bypassed the city in favor of nearby DORISCUS, where he held his famous review of the army after crossing the HELLESPONT.
SEE ALSO: Aeolians; Colonization
FURTHER READING
1 IACP no. 641 (875–77).
2 Isaac,
