Pygela
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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).[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/3109 Suda, pi.3109] [[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).[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1389.tlg001.perseus-grc1:p.ppsgela HARPOKRATION, LEXICON OF THE TEN ORATORS, § p119] [[Suda]] wrote the same about the name of the place.[http://www.stoa.org/sol-entries/pi/3109 Suda Encyclopedia, § pi.3109] |
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).[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/3109 Suda, pi.3109] [[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).[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1389.tlg001.perseus-grc1:p.ppsgela HARPOKRATION, LEXICON OF THE TEN ORATORS, § p119] [[Suda]] wrote the same about the name of the place.[http://www.stoa.org/sol-entries/pi/3109 Suda Encyclopedia, § pi.3109] |
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The folk-etymology is ridiculous, as it was always meant to be, in the tradition of naming subject places and peoples with derogatory [[exonym]]s. The settlement was never a part of the [[Ionian League]], even though it was in Ionia. As it was part of the spoils of the [[Melia (Ionia)|Meliac War]], chances are it was [[Caria]]n. It does have a bronze-age history (see below) under the [[Hittite language|Hittite]] name of Piggaya, which, if too early for the Carian language, at least was Anatolian, probably Luwian, as the place then would have been in [[Arzawa]]. |
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[[Strabo]] wrote that Demetrius was speaking of the existence of [[Amazons]] near Pygela.[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=12:chapter=3 Strabo, Geography, book 12, chapter 3] |
[[Strabo]] wrote that Demetrius was speaking of the existence of [[Amazons]] near Pygela.[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=12:chapter=3 Strabo, Geography, book 12, chapter 3] |
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==History== |
==History== |
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In the "Indictment of [[Madduwatta]]", it is mentioned, under the Hittite name '''Piggaya''', as being allied to the [[Ahhiyawa]] king [[Attarissiya]]. The "Indictment" is dated to the early-fourteenth century BC in the Reign of [[Arnuwanda I]], and Attarissiya is popularly identified with [[Atreus]], which would mean that the city predates a founding by Agamemnon and the traditional date of the Trojan war. |
In the "Indictment of [[Madduwatta]]", it is mentioned, under the Hittite name '''Piggaya''', as being allied to the [[Ahhiyawa]] king [[Attarissiya]].{{Cite web |last=Choutsisvili |first=Anna |date=August 2020 |title=Finding the ‘King’ of Alashiya |url=https://studenttheses.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2711190/view}} The "Indictment" is dated to the early-fourteenth century BC in the Reign of [[Arnuwanda I]], and Attarissiya is popularly identified with [[Atreus]],{{Cite book |last=Brianas |first=James G. |title=Voices From The Past: 1430 BC to 1210 BC |publisher=Council of Achilles |year=2018}} which would mean that the city predates a founding by Agamemnon and the traditional date of the Trojan war. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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