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Ethiopians

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Canonical name
Ethiopians
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

0

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

2
·Direct

The Ethiopians live at the world’s end in two divisions, one facing west and one east.

See evidence text
the Ethiopians, who are at the world’s end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East
·Remembered

Menelaus visits the Ethiopians during his homeward wanderings.

See evidence text
I went also to the Ethiopians, the Sidonians, and the Erembians

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Direct
the Ethiopians
·Remembered
I went also to the Ethiopians
·Direct
King Neptune, who was returning from the Ethiopians

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 3

Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world’s end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East. {1} He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first. At that moment he was thinking of Aegisthus, who had been killed by Agamemnon’s son Orestes; so he said to the other gods: