Οἰδάντιον

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Οἰδάντιον, πόλις Ἰλλυριῶν. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν τριακοστῷ ὀγδόῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἴδαντες, ὥς φησιν Ἑκαταῖος. καὶ Οἰδαντικὴ γῆ.

Oïdantion: a city of the Illyrians. Theopompos, in book 38 of the Philippika. The ethnicon is Oïdantes, as Hekataios says. Also: Oïdantike land/territory.

Text Details

Entry#19
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 485.1 · Billerbeck Ο19
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count15
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 182
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)FGrHist 1 F 98
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΟἰδάντιονOidantion · place
ἸλλυριοίIllyrians · people
ΟἴδαντεςOidantes · people
Οἰδαντικὴ γῆOidantic land · place
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear Metalinguistic'Oidantion' — a city of the Illyrians.
Morphological CompositionThe ethnicon (demonym) 'Oidantes', as Hecataeus says.
Morphological Compositionand 'Oidantic land' (the adjectival form denoting the territory).

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