![]() ![]() These Persian génea are qualified as farmers ( arotḗres), but he also lists four nomadic ones: Dáoi, Márdoi, Dropikoí, Sagártioi. Herodotus does not provide a direct genealogical line leading from this dim and distant era into the historically clearer past. Only for them Herodotus adduces a clan lineage group ( phrḗtrē), which is called Axaimenídai (Schmitt, 1987), a distinctive part of whom are the Perseídai, the Persian kings (Rollinger, 1998, p. ![]() The first three Persian génea are the leading ones, of whom the Pasargádai are said to be the most noble ( áristoi). The Persian are Pasargádai, Maráphioi, Máspioi, Panthialaîoi, Dērousiaîoi, Germánioi (1.125.3-4 cf. The Median génea are: Boûsai, Parētakēnoí, Stroúxates, Arizantoí, Boúdioi, Mágoi (1.101). For the use of éthnos and génea in Herodotus, see Jones, 1996 Tanck, 1997). ![]() (The génea may be understood as a descent group. Both Medes and Persians are qualified by Herodotus as an éthnos, and he lists six génea for each, respectively. He also states that the Persians have adopted Median attire (1.35 Armayor, 1978c, p. E´thnos “people.” In the Histories the Persians are sometimes not exactly distinguishable from other peoples of their empire, especially when the Greeks’ opponents are simply qualified as “Persians.” The Persians generally are run together with the Medes, as can be recognized by Herodotus’s use of the terms mēdízein and mēdismós (Myres, 1936 Graf, 1984 Tuplin, 1994, 1997 Rollinger, 2003). ![]()
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