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The Peucetians (; (ラテン語:Peucetii)) were a tribe who were living in Apulia, southern Italy, in the country of Peucetia around modern Bari. Other names are the Poedicli and the Pediculans. They are traditionally one of the tribes of the Iapygian civilization.〔Kathryn Lomas, "Cities, states and ethnic identity in southeast Italy" E. Herring and K. Lomas (eds), ''The Emergences of State Identities in Italy in the First Millennium BC'' (London, 2000).〕 They had three important towns: Canosa, Silvium and Bitonto; the present capital of Apulia, Bari, had not much importance. With increasing Hellenization their eponymous ancestor, given the name ''Peucetis'', was said by Dionysius of Halicarnassus〔Dionysius, ''Roman Antiquites'', I.xi.3.〕 to have been the son of the Arcadian Lycaon and brother of Oenotrus. Lycaon having divided Arcadia among his twenty-two sons, Peucetios was inspired to seek better fortune abroad. This etiological myth is considered by modern writers to suggest strongly that, as far as the Greeks were concerned, the Peucetii were culturally part, though an unimportant part, of Magna Graecia. Strabo places them to the north of the Calabri.〔"...on the north (the land of the Calabri ), are the Peucetii and also those people who in the Greek language are called Dauni, but the natives give the name Apulia to the whole country that comes after that of the Calabri, though some of them, particularly the Peucetii, are called Poedicli also." (''Geography'' VI.3).〕 Strabo adds (VI.8) "...the terms Peucetii and Daunii are not at all used by the native inhabitants except in the early times"In the time of Strabo the territory occupied by the former Peuceti lay on the mule-track that was the only connection between Brindisi and Benevento.〔"There are two roads from here: one, a mule-road through the countries of the Peucetii (who are called Poedicli) the Dauni, and the Samnitae as far as Beneventum..." (''Geography'' VI.7.〕 Pre-Roman ceramic evidence justifies Strabo's classification of Daunii, Peucetii and Messapii, who were all speakers of the Messapian language. There were twelve tribal proto-statelets among the Peucetii, one of which is represented by modern Altamura. The ''Encyclopédie'' under "Peuceti", distinguishes them from another ancient people, the ''Peucetioe'' who were living in Liburnia at the head of the Adriatic, with a reference to Callimachus, as quoted in Pliny (''H.N.'' III.21) placing their country in Pliny's day as part of Illyria〔(on-line text )〕 but modern ethnography treats them as synonyms.〔i.e., Ray Laurence, in ''Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire'', 1998, ch. 7 "Territory, ethnonyms and geography: The construction of identity in Roman Italy" "...in Apulia, where the Peucetii were also known as Poedicli..."〕 ==See also== *Iapyges *Messapii *Dauni 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peucetians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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