Medi

Za ostala značenja, vidi Medi (razvrstavanje).

Medi (također poznati i kao Majdaci ili Medanci; starogrčki: Μαίδοι [Maídoi], latinski: Maedi), su bili trakiijsko^[1] pleme koje je u antičko doba nastanjivalo područje između Peonije i Trakije, na jugozapadnim granicama Trakije, duž srednjeg toka rijeke Strume i gornjeg toka rijeke Meste u današnjoj jugpzapadnoj Bugarskoj). Glavni grad im je bio Iamphorynna^[2].

Kroz najveći dio svoje historije su bili nezavisno pleme, a što im je priznao i trački kralj Sitalk. U tome su bili slični drugim ratobornim "graničnim" plemeniman kao što su Dardanci, Agrijanci i Peonci, a čije su zemlje činile tampon zonu između Odrisa na istoku, ilirskih plemena na zapadu i Makedonije na jugu. Drevni historičar i biograd Plutarh opisuje kako je Spartak bio "Tračanin nomadskog porijekla", odnosno Med. Plutarh također tvrdi da je Spartakova žena bila plemenska proročica, te zarobljena zajedno s njim.

Između 89. i 84. pne. (za vrijeme prvog mitridatskog rata), Medi su prodrli u Makedoniju te opljačkali Delfe^[3] . Tvrdi se da su i ranije imali običaj pljačkati Makedoniju kada god bi makedonski kralj bio na pohodu ^[4].Sula je nakon toga^[5] opljačkao zemlju Meda.

Dio Meda se iselio u Malu Aziju gdje su bili poznati kao Medobitinijci (latinski: MaedoBythini^[6]; starogrčki: Μαιδοβίθυνοι, Maidobíthunoi).

Izvori

↑ The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss,ISBN 1-4165-3205-6,2009,page 31: "... ancient text might have referred not to nomads but to Maedi (singular, Maedus). The Maedi were a Thracian tribe
↑ Livy: History of Rome, VII, Books 26-27 (Loeb Classical Library No. 367) by Livy and Frank Gardner Moore,1943,page 96: "... waste the country and to besiege the city of Iamphorynna, the capital and citadel of Maedica
↑ The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Companions) by M. C. Howatson,2006,ISBN 0-19-860081-X,page 73: "... of 89-85, when Athens, which had sided with *Mithridates, was sacked and in part destroyed by the Roman general *Sulla (see i above). Greece suffered severely, both from Sulla and from the barbar- ian allies of Mithridates, who sacked Delphi. ..."
↑ Titus Livius,"into Macedonia and thence into Thrace and against the Maedi. [7] that tribe had been in the habit of making raids into Macedonia, whenever it knew that the king was engaged in a foreign war and the kingdom unprotected. "
↑ Plutarch, Sulla,"Upon these assurances Sulla sent him away, and then himself invaded the country of the Maedi and after ravaging the most of it",
↑ The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC by John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, E. Sollberger, and N. G. L. Hammond ,ISBN 0-521-22717-8,1992,page 601: "Earlier certain tribes of the Maedi emigrated to Asia minor were they were known by the name of the MaedoBythini."

Povezano

[1] The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss,ISBN 1-4165-3205-6,2009,page 31: "... ancient text might have referred not to nomads but to Maedi (singular, Maedus). The Maedi were a Thracian tribe

[2] Livy: History of Rome, VII, Books 26-27 (Loeb Classical Library No. 367) by Livy and Frank Gardner Moore,1943,page 96: "... waste the country and to besiege the city of Iamphorynna, the capital and citadel of Maedica

[3] The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Companions) by M. C. Howatson,2006,ISBN 0-19-860081-X,page 73: "... of 89-85, when Athens, which had sided with *Mithridates, was sacked and in part destroyed by the Roman general *Sulla (see i above). Greece suffered severely, both from Sulla and from the barbar- ian allies of Mithridates, who sacked Delphi. ..."

[4] Titus Livius,"into Macedonia and thence into Thrace and against the Maedi. [7] that tribe had been in the habit of making raids into Macedonia, whenever it knew that the king was engaged in a foreign war and the kingdom unprotected. "

[5] Plutarch, Sulla,"Upon these assurances Sulla sent him away, and then himself invaded the country of the Maedi and after ravaging the most of it",

[6] The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC by John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, E. Sollberger, and N. G. L. Hammond ,ISBN 0-521-22717-8,1992,page 601: "Earlier certain tribes of the Maedi emigrated to Asia minor were they were known by the name of the MaedoBythini."

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