Magnetes

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Magnetes were an ancient Greek tribe from the region of Magnesia in Thessaly, known from myth and history as participants in wider Hellenic religious and political affairs.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek tribe
associatedWithMyth Argonauts
Centaurs
Jason
borderedBy Aegean Sea
Pelasgiotis
Fthiotis
surface form: Phthiotis
cultOf Apollo
Artemis
Poseidon
Zeus
culture Thessalian Greek culture
economyBasedOn agriculture
maritime trade
pastoralism
ethnicGroupOf Greek Antiquity
surface form: ancient Greece
ethnonymDerivedFrom Magnesia
foughtIn Trojan War
governedAs tribal community
hadEponymousAncestor Magnesia
surface form: Magnes
hadMainCity Demetrias
Iolcus
Pherae
hadSanctuaryAt Demetrias
inhabitedRegion coastal Magnesia
Thessaly
surface form: eastern Thessaly
laterIncorporatedInto Roman Empire
ledBy Phylacus
Prothoos
locatedIn Magnesia
Thessaly
central Greece
memberOf Amphictyonic League
mentionedBy Homer
mentionedIn Homer's Iliad
surface form: Iliad
participatedIn Amphictyonic League
surface form: Delphic Amphictyony

Hellenic political affairs
Hellenic religious life
Panhellenic sanctuary network
surface form: Panhellenic sanctuaries
partOf Thessalian ethnos
regionKnownFor Mount Pelion
Pagasetic Gulf
religion ancient Greek religion
spokeLanguage Ancient Greek
subjectTo Macedon
surface form: Macedonian kingdom
timePeriod Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
Hellenistic period

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Magnesia ethnicGroup Magnetes
Amphictyonic League hasMember Magnetes
Magnesia namedAfter Magnetes