Magnetes

The Magnetes (Greek: Μάγνητες) were an 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 Thessaly, in a part that is still known as Magnesia.[1] Later, they participated in the Greek colonisation of Western Anatolia by founding two prosperous cities: Magnesia on the Maeander and Magnesia ad Sipylum.

  1. ^ Kirk, G.S. (1985). The Iliad : a commentary (Repr ed.). Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. p. 187. ISBN 0521237092. Retrieved 18 January 2014.