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{{short description|Ancient Greek tribe}}
The '''Magnetes''' (Greek: {{lang|grc|Μάγνητες}}) were an [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] tribe. In book 2 of the ''[[Iliad]]'', [[Homer]] includes them in the Greek Army that is besieging [[Troy]], and identifies their homeland in [[Ancient Thessaly|Thessaly]], in a part that is still known as [[Magnesia (regional unit)|Magnesia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kirk|first=G.S.|title=The Iliad : a commentary|year=1985|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge [England]|isbn=0521237092|page=187|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4WTQ9WWlvcC&q=iliad+magnetes&pg=PA187|edition=Repr|accessdate=18 January 2014}}</ref> Later, they participated in the [[Greek colonies|Greek colonisation]] of Western [[Anatolia]] by founding two prosperous cities: [[Magnesia on the Maeander]] and [[Magnesia ad Sipylum]].

==Mythology==
According to the [[Hesiod]]ic ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' ({{abbr|fr.|fragment}} 7), [[Thyia (mythology)|Thyia]], a daughter of [[Deucalion]], lay with [[Zeus]] and bore two sons: [[Magnes (son of Aeolus)|Magnes]] and [[Makednos]], the eponyms of the Magnetes and [[Ancient Macedonians|Macedones]], respectively. Within Thyia's extended family in the ''Catalogue'' are found the progenitors of several of the other early [[Greek tribes]]. Her sister [[Pandora (daughter of Pyrrha)|Pandora II]] (named after her grandmother, the famous [[Pandora]]) bore [[Graecus]] (also to Zeus). And their brother [[Hellen]], along with his three sons [[Dorus]], [[Xuthus]] (with his sons [[Ion (mythology)|Ion]] and [[Achaeus (son of Xuthus)|Achaeus]]) and [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolos]], filled out the set of progenitors of the ancient tribes that formed the Greek/[[Ancient Greece|Hellenic]] nation.

== Family tree ==
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  |He=Hellen<br />{{smallcaps|([[Names of the Greeks#Hellenes|hellenes]])}}
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  |Do=Dorus<br />{{smallcaps|([[dorians]])}}
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  |Mag=Magnes<br />{{smallcaps|(magnetes)}}
  |Mac=Macedon<br />{{smallcaps|([[Ancient Macedonians|macedones]])}}
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| style="font-size:88%" | The genealogical relation between the early Greek tribes within the family of Deucalion.<ref>After M.L. West, ''The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins'' (Oxford, 1985) 173. Hellen is a son of [[Pyrrha]] and Zeus ({{ws|[[:s:Catalogue of Women#2|frr. 2–5]]}}; cf. West (1985) 52, 56); Graecus, a son of [[Pandora II]], [[Deucalion]]'s daughter, and Zeus ({{ws|[[:s:Catalogue of Women#5|fr. 5]])}}; Magnes and Macedon, sons of [[Thyia (mythology)|Thyia]], Deucalion's daughter, and Zeus ({{ws|[[:s:Catalogue of Women#2|fr. 7]])}}; Dorus and Aeolus are sons of Hellen by the nymph [[Othreis]] ({{ws|[[:s:Catalogue of Women#9|fr. 9]])}}, as is Xuthus, who, marrying [[Creusa]], daughter of [[Erechtheus]], sired Achaeus and Ion (fr. 10(a)23 OCT).</ref>
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[[Category:Ancient tribes in Greece]]
[[Category:Greek tribes]]
[[Category:Trojan War]]
[[Category:Ancient tribes in Thessaly]]

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