The Magnetes (Greek: Μάγνητες) were an ancient Greece tribe. In book 2 of the Iliad, Homer includes them in the Greek Army that is besieging Troy, and identifies their homeland in Ancient Thessaly, in a part that is still known as Magnesia.
Mythology
According to the
Catalogue of Women ( 7), Thyia, a daughter of
Deucalion, lay with
Zeus and bore two sons: Magnes and
Makednos, the eponyms of the Magnetes and Macedones, respectively. Within Thyia's extended family in the
Catalogue are found the progenitors of several of the other early
Greek tribes. Her sister Pandora II (named after her grandmother, the famous
Pandora) bore
Graecus (also to Zeus). And their brother
Hellen, along with his three sons
Dorus,
Xuthus (with his sons Ion and Achaeus) and Aeolos, filled out the set of progenitors of the ancient tribes that formed the Greek/
Ancient Greece nation.
Family tree
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The genealogical relation between the early Greek tribes within the family of Deucalion.[After M.L. West, The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins (Oxford, 1985) 173. Hellen is a son of Pyrrha and Zeus (; cf. West (1985) 52, 56); Graecus, a son of Pandora II, Deucalion's daughter, and Zeus (; Magnes and Macedon, sons of Thyia, Deucalion's daughter, and Zeus (; Dorus and Aeolus are sons of Hellen by the nymph Othreis (, as is Xuthus, who, marrying Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, sired Achaeus and Ion (fr. 10(a)23 OCT).] |
