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Headword:
*ca/nqos
Adler number: xi,9
Translated headword: Xanthos, Xanthus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Kandaules, a Lydian from
Sardis, historian, born at the time of the capture of
Sardis.[1] [He wrote a]
Lydian History in 4 books.
In the second of these he reports that Gyges, the king of the Lydians, was the first to eunuchize women so as to enjoy them in an ever-youthful state.[2]
This Xanthos [
Myth,
Place] reports that a certain Alkimos,[3] a very reverent and most gentle man, was king of the land there, and that under him there was profound peace and much wealth, while everyone lived without fear and without guile; then, when Alkimos was seven[ty?] years old,[4] the whole Lydian people came forth publicly and prayed and sought that such years be given to Alkimos for the good of the Lydians; and this happened; and they lived in much good fortune and prosperity.[5]
*ca/nqos, *kandau/lou, *ludo\s e)k *sa/rdewn, i(storiko/s, gegonw\s e)pi\ th=s a(lw/sews *sa/rdewn. *ludiaka\ bibli/a d#. e)n de\ tw=| deute/rw| tou/twn i(storei=, w(s prw=tos *gu/ghs o( *ludw=n basileu\s gunai=kas eu)nou/xisen, o(/pws au)tai=s xrw=|to a)ei\ neazou/sais. ou(=tos i(storei= o( *ca/nqos, *)/alkimo/n tina basileu=sai th=s e)kei=se xw/ras, eu)sebe/staton kai\ prao/taton a)/ndra, kai\ e)p' au)tou= gene/sqai ei)rh/nhn baqei=an kai\ plou=ton polu/n, a)dew=s de\ kai\ a)nepibouleu/tws zh=n e(/kaston. ei)=ta e)peidh\ e(pta\ e)/th h)=n tw=| *)alki/mw|, proelqo/ntas tou\s *ludou\s paggenh= te kai\ pandhmei\ proseu/casqai kai\ ai)th=sai tw=| *)alki/mw| toiau=ta e)/th doqh=nai e)s to\ *ludw=n a)gaqo/n: o(\ kai\ ge/gone: kai\ e)n eu)potmi/a| te kai\ eu)daimoni/a| pollh=| dih=gon.
Notes:
OCD4
Xanthus(2).
[1] By Cyrus the Great of Persia, in 546 BCE. The ancient city of
Sardis, capital of the kingdom of
Lydia, was located in western Asia Minor (Barrington Atlas map 56 grid G5), some 65 km. east of the Aegean Sea coastline, at the site of today's city of Sart,
Manisa Province, modern-day Turkey. See
sigma 125.
[2] From
Hesychius of Miletus, fr. 7.761. For Gyges see generally
gamma 472. But
Athenaeus' version of this story names the Lydian king in question as Adramytes:
Deipnosophists 12.11. Several Greek writers mention female circumcision (or genital mutilation) as practiced in Egypt.
[3] Elsewhere the name is Akiamos (Herodian,
Nicolaus of Damascus,
Stephanus of
Byzantium) or Akimios (Constantine Porphyrogenitus).
[4] The emendation is Wachsmuth's; clearly no seven-year-old can be described as this king has just been. (Alternatively: had seven years sc. left to live.)
[5] cf.
epsilon 3660,
pi 174.
FGrH 765: 9 testimonia, of which the present entry furnishes T1; 33 fragments (30 of them from the Lydiaka), of which the present entry furnishes F4b and F19
Keywords: biography; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; medicine; religion; women
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 15 February 2000@12:54:12.
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