Aethiopia
Geographical term in classical Greek literature for the upper Nile and areas south of the Sahara / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Classical Greek term. For the modern country, see Ethiopia. For the genus of beetles, see Aethiopia (beetle). For the Billy Woods album, see Aethiopes (album).
Ancient Aethiopia, (Greek: Αἰθιοπία, romanized: Aithiopía; also known as Ethiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region of Sudan, areas south of the Sahara, and certain areas in Asia. Its earliest mention is in the works of Homer: twice in the Iliad,[1] and three times in the Odyssey.[2] The Greek historian Herodotus uses the appellation to refer to such parts of sub-Saharan Africa as were then part of the known world.[3]
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