Ethiopians · Atlas

spoken of as

1 expression

The Ethiopians2 mentions

Theogony (Greek) · Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek)

And Eos bore to Tithonus brazen-crested Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, and the Lord Emathion.

in the texts

The HistoriesClassical · Greek

The peoples of Ethiopia, encountered progressively as one travels south beyond Elephantine, whose capital is Meroe and among whom the Egyptian Deserters settled.

The people of the place worship no other gods but Zeus and Dionysus;

chapter 2 ¶

The country above Elephantine now begins to be inhabited by Ethiopians:

chapter 2 ¶

These Ethiopians then learned Egyptian customs and have become milder-mannered by intermixture with the Egyptians.

chapter 2 ¶

IliadClassical · Greek

A people among whom Zeus and the other gods are feasting, delaying Thetis's petition.

For Zeus went yesterday to Okeanos, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him.

chapter 1 ¶

"I cannot stay," she said, "I must go back to the streams of Okeanos and the land of the Ethiopians who are offering hecatombs to the immortals, and I would have my share;

chapter 9 ¶

OdysseyClassical · Greek

A distant people living at the world's end, divided into two halves, among whom Poseidon is feasting when the divine council convenes.

Now Poseidon 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.

chapter 1 ¶

But lord Poseidon, who was returning from the Ethiopians, caught sight of Odysseus a long way off, from the mountains of the Solymi.

chapter 5 ¶

Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

A people whose learning Josaphat was educated in.

came to the age of youth, having gone through all the learning of the Ethiopians and the Persians.

chapter 5 ¶

one that devout men of the inner country of the Ethiopians — those whom our account knows to call Indians — recounted to me, having translated it without falsehood from trustworthy records.

preface ¶

OrationsImperial · Greek

People among whom gold is cheap and evildoers are bound in gold fetters, cited to show gold confers no true blessedness

And if it profited to possess gold, nothing would prevent the Ethiopians of the interior from seeming most blessed, among whom gold is held cheaper than lead is with us;

chapter 35 ¶

And if the possession of gold conferred any benefit, there would be nothing to prevent the Ethiopians of the interior from being reckoned the most blessed of all, where gold is held in less honor than lead is among us, and where, they say, evildoers are bound in thick fetters of gold—yet they are none the less prisoners, base, and unjust.

oration 79 ¶

TheogonyClassical · Greek

The people ruled by Memnon, son of Eos and Tithonus.

And Eos bore to Tithonus brazen-crested Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, and the Lord Emathion.

chapter 75 ¶

IsthmeanClassical · Greek

The people led at Troy by their commander Memnon.

Tell me, who killed Cycnus, and who Hector, and the fearless commander of the Ethiopians, bronze-armed Memnon?

chapter 5 ¶

NemeanClassical · Greek

Memnon's people, whom Achilles is destined to fight and whose leader he ultimately slays.

It even reached the Ethiopians, when Memnon did not return to his home;

chapter 6 ¶

and when he came into close conflict with the spear-bearing Ethiopians, he might fix it in his mind that their leader, powerful Memnon the kinsman of Helenus, should not return to his home.

antigone ¶

On AngerImperial · Latin

A people known for longevity who refused servitude to Cambyses and provoked his campaign.

Some such thing would the Ethiopians too have suffered, who, because of the very great length of their life, are called Macrobii;

book 3 ¶

Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

A Gentile people named in the cited psalm as gathering to Zion.

"And behold, foreigners and Tyre and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

book 4 ¶