In Latin poetry Oestreminis ("Extreme West") was a name given to the territory of what is today modern Portugal and Galicia , comparable to Finis terrae , the "end of the earth" from a Mediterranean perspective. Its inhabitants were named Oestrimni from their location.
3-510: In Ora Maritima ("Seacoasts"), a poem inspired by a much earlier Greek mariners' periplus , Rufus Avienius Festus , Roman poet of the fourth century CE known for his pieces on geographical subjects, records that Oestriminis was peopled by the Oestrimni , a people who had lived there for a long time, and had to run away from their native lands after an invasion of serpents . His fanciful account has no archeological or historical application, but
6-537: Is a theoretical reconstruction of a sixth-century BC periplus , or sailing manual, proposed by historian Adolf Schulten . Schulten believed a Massiliote Periplus had been versified in the lines of the Ora Maritima by Avienius . Schulten dated it to the 6th century BC. It describes a voyage from Oestriminis , modern Pointe du Raz , to Massalia, modern Marseille . Its existence has been denied by other scholars. This Ancient Greece related article
9-580: The poetical name has sometimes been ambitiously applied to popularized accounts of the Paleolithic inhabitants of Atlantic Iberia. The expulsion of the Oestrimni , from Ora Maritima: The "serpent people" of the semi-mythical Ophiussa in the far west are noted in ancient Greek sources. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Struma This article about Portuguese history is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Massaliote Periplus The Massaliote Periplus or Massiliote Periplus
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