Eleans As Barbarians
Eleans were labelled as the greatest barbarians barbarotatoi by musician Stratonicus of Athens
| “ | And when he was once asked by some one who were the wickedest people, he said, “That in Pamphylia, the people of PhasElis were the worst; but that the Sidetae were the worst in the whole world.” And when he was asked again, according to the account given by Hegesander, which were the greatest barbarians, the Boeotians or the Thessalians he said, ” The Eleans.” | ” |
In Hesychius (s.v. βαρβαρόφωνοι) and other ancient lexica Eleans are also listed as barbarophones. Indeed the North-West Doric dialect of Elis is, after the Aeolic dialects, one of the most difficult for the modern reader of epigraphic texts.
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