TAKEPLACE: GRAIKOS HOW WE CAME TO BE KNOWN AS GREEKS

Monday, July 4, 2011

GRAIKOS HOW WE CAME TO BE KNOWN AS GREEKS

In northern Greece, his offspring included Thebe and Lokros, accounting for Thebes (Boeotia), and the Locrians (Locris). Thessaly was possibly the most important centre for Zeus-worship (that is why Olypus is on its borders) and specially exploited ancestry from Zeus: delightfully, his son Meliteus (Honeyman), was fed on honey by the bees, before founding Melite (Phthiotis). The Haemones (Pelasgiotis), the Manesians and the Myrmidons (the tribe of the Iliad's Patroclus) traced their ancestry back to sons of Zeus-Haemon, Magnes and Myrmidon. THeir neighbours the Macedonians did the same Macedon. In the northwest, his oracular site at Dodona (Epirus) goes back to his son Dodonaios, and the trib that gave the Romans and us the name Greeks goes back to his son Graikos.

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