Ancient Greek tribes

The Greek/Macedonian/Illyrian/Thracian contact zone (Paleo-Balkans languages)

The "Catalogue of Women" (7th century BC) presents an aitiology for the various tribes of the Greeks (Hellenes), deriving them from Hellen and Pandora, the children of Deukalion and Pyrrha. Pandora (named after her grandmother Pandora) together with Zeus had three sons: Graecus, Magnetas and Makednos, while Hellen had the three sons Dorus, Xuthus (with his sons Ion and Achaeus) and Aeolos, corresponding to the founders of the seven tribes of the (Boeotian) Graecians, the (Thessalian) Magnetes, the Macedonians, the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans and the Aeolians, respectively.

Tribes and peoples of Ancient Greece and adjacent regions:

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean Greece)

• Achaeans/Ahhiyawa
• Sea Peoples/Philistines (uncertain)

Iron Age Greece

Further information: Ancient Greek dialects

• Aeolians
  • Thessalians
  • Magnesians
  • Boeotians
    • Thebans
• Ionians (Attic-Ionic)
  • Athenians
  • Euboeans
  • Milesians
• Dorians
  • Macedonia
  • Spartans
  • Locrians
  • Cretans
  • Rhodians
  • Aetolians
• Arcado-Cypriots
  • Arcadians
  • Cypriots
• Macedonians

Epirus

• Epirotes

Thrace

• Thracian Greeks

Scythia

• Geloni

[edit] See also

• Greeks
• Names of the Greeks
• Catalogue of Ships
• Ancient Greek dialects
• Polis
• Greek colonies
• Pre-Greek substrate
• Hellenization