Iapyges
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The Iapyges or Iapygians were an Indo-European people who inhabited the heel of Italy (modern Apulia) before being absorbed by the Romans.
The Iapyges came most likely from Illyria[1] or Crete[2] . They spoke the Messapian language. The Messapians were the most southerly tribe of the Iapyges. Their other tribes included the Dauni[3] and the Peucetii. The name "Iapyges" was given them by the Greek authors, who linked the tribe's origin to Dedalus's son Iapyges. They were called Apuli, Salentini (or Sallentini) and Calabri by Roman authors.
Iapygians were akin to the Oenotrians, an ancient Italic people who lived in the territory of Basilicata and Northern Calabria.
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[edit] References
- ^ Atlas of Classical History R. Talbert,ISBN-10: 0415034639,1989,Page 3,"... Magna Graetia) as well as Sicily; from Illyrians, known as Iapyges, who settled first in the heel of Italy and then spread north; and from Gauls, Celtic-speaking invaders from beyond the ..."
- ^ Herodotus, The Histories,7.170.1,"and made this their dwelling place, accordingly changing from Cretans to Messapians of Iapygia,"
- ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898),see Apulia,"The Greeks gave the name of Daunia to the north part of the country from the Frento to the Aufidus, of Peucetia to the country from the Aufidus to Tarentum and Brundusium, and of Iapygia or Messapia to the whole of the remaining southern part",Apulia
[edit] Bibliography
Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992,ISBN 0631198075
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