The Bebryces ( Greek : Βέβρυκες ) were a tribe of people who lived in Bithynia . According to Strabo they were one of the many Thracian tribes that had crossed from Europe into Asia, although modern scholars have rather argued for a Celtic origin.
10-777: Classical linguists considered the name of Bebryces related to the thracian tribe Bryges , which was later renamed to Phryges (Phrygians), based on the geographic proximity, as well as the migration route of the Phrygians known from ancient myths. B. Sergent suggests that the name Bebryces could be related to the Celtic tribes Bebruces , living in the Pyrenees , and Briboci , dwelling in Britain, all ultimately stemming from Proto-Celtic *brebu ('beaver'; see Gaulish bebros , bebrus , Old Irish Bibar , 'beaver'). Ivan Duridanov also suggested that
20-415: A daughter of Danaus , a mythical King of Libya and Arabia (Apollodorus). Bebryx was also the father of Pyrene . This article relating to Greek mythology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bryges Bryges or Briges ( Greek : Βρύγοι or Βρίγες ) is the historical name given to a people of the ancient Balkans . They are generally considered to have been related to
30-566: The Epirotian Thesprotians against the Bryges. Small groups of Bryges, after the migration to Anatolia and the expansion of the kingdom of Macedon , were still left in northern Pelagonia and around Epidamnus. Herodotus also mentions that in 492 BC, some Thracian Brygoi or Brygians (Greek: Βρύγοι Θρήικες) fell upon the Persian camp by night, wounding Mardonius himself, though he went on with
40-647: The Phrygians , who during classical antiquity lived in western Anatolia . Both names, Bryges and Phrygians , are assumed to be variants of the same root. Based on archaeological evidence, some scholars such as Nicholas Hammond and Eugene N. Borza argue that the Bryges/Phrygians were members of the Lusatian culture that migrated into the southern Balkans during the Late Bronze Age . The earliest mentions of
50-570: The Bryges are contained in the historical writings of Herodotus , who relates them to Phrygians, stating that according to the Macedonians , the Bryges "changed their name" to Phryges after migrating into Anatolia , a movement which is thought to have happened between 1200 BC and 800 BC perhaps due to the Bronze Age collapse , particularly the fall of the Hittite Empire and the power vacuum that
60-520: The campaign until he subdued them. These Brygoi were later mentioned in Plutarch's Parallel Lives , in the Battle of Philippi , as camp servants of Brutus . However, modern scholars state that a historical link between them and the original Bryges cannot be established. There is no certain derivation for the name and tribal origin of the Bryges. In 1844, Hermann Müller suggested the name might be related to
70-411: The city Heraclea there. Some say Amycus was a brother of Mygdon and another Bebrycian king; both were sons of Poseidon and Melia . Greek mythology offers two different accounts for the origin of the name 'Bebryces': either from a woman named Bebryce (Eustath. ad Dionysius Periegetes 805.), or from a hero named Bebryx (or Bebrycus) (Steph. Byz. s.v. Bebrycus). Bebryce is possibly the same as Bryce,
80-794: The ethnonym was related to Indo-European words meaning "beaver". The same word denotes beaver in Slavic Languages (* bebrus in Proto-Balto-Slavic , bober in Slovenian , bobar in Bulgarian , bobr in Russian ). According to legend they were defeated by Heracles or the Dioscuri , who killed their king, Mygdon or Amycus . Their land was then given to King Lycus of the Mariandynians , who built
90-673: The same Indo-European root as that of Slavic Breg (shore, hill, slope, mountain), German Berg (mountain) i.e. IE * bʰerǵʰ . It would then be cognate with Western European tribal names such as the Celtic Brigantes and the Germanic Burgundians , and semantically motivated by some aspect of the word meanings "high, elevated, noble, illustrious". Some personal or geographic names mentioned in ancient authors may be etymologically related to "Bryges": Eugammon of Cyrene Eugammon of Cyrene ( Greek : Εὐγάμων ὁ Κυρηναῖος )
100-544: Was created. In the Balkans, the Bryges occupied central Albania and some parts of northern Epirus , as well as Macedonia , mainly west of the Axios river , but also Mygdonia , which was conquered by the kingdom of Macedon in the early 5th century BC. They seem to have lived peacefully next to the inhabitants of Macedonia. However, Eugammon in his Telegony , drawing upon earlier epic traditions, mentions that Odysseus commanded
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