Magnetes

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The Magnetes were an ancient Greek tribe living in Thessalian Magnesia who took part in the Trojan War. They later also contributed to the Greek colonisation. According to (probably) Hesiod's "Eoiae" (Greek: Ηοίαι) or "Catalogue of Women"[1] on the origin of the Greeks, Pandora (named after her grandmother Pandora, sister of Hellen and daughter of Deukalion and Pyrrha) together with Zeus had three sons: Graecus, Magnetas and Makednos who together with Hellen's three sons Dorus, Xuthus (with his sons Ion and Achaeus) and Aeolos, comprised the set of progenitors of the ancient tribes that formed the Greek/Hellenic nation.

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  1. ^ Hesiod (probably), "Eoiae" (Greek: Ηοίαι) or "Catalogue of Women", c. 650 BC.

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