Thesprotians

Thesprotia in antiquity. (=Tesprotia; map labeled in Spanish.)

The Thesprotians (Ancient Greek: Θεσπρωτοί, romanized: Thesprōtoí) were an ancient Greek tribe, akin to the Molossians, inhabiting the kingdom of Thesprotis in Epirus.[1][2] Together with the Molossians and the Chaonians, they formed the main tribes of the northwestern Greek group.[3] On their northeastern frontier, they neighbored the Chaonians and on their northern frontier they neighbored the kingdom of the Molossians. The poet Homer frequently mentions Thesprotia in the Odyssey,[4] which had friendly relations with Ithaca and Doulichi. The Thesprotians originally controlled the Dodona oracle, the oldest religious shrine in Greece. Later, they were part of the Epirus until they were annexed into the Roman Empire.

  1. ^ "Epirus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. ^ Hammond 1994, pp. 430, 434; Hammond 1982, p. 284; Wilkes 1995, p. 104.
  3. ^ Errington 1990, p. 43.
  4. ^ See book 19