Bebryces
The Bebryces ({{langx|el|Βέβρυκες}}) were a tribe of people who lived in Bithynia. According to Strabo they were one of the many Thracian tribes that had crossed from Europe into Asia,Strabo, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.3.2 7.3.2]. although modern scholars have rather argued for a Celtic origin.{{Sfn|Sergent|1988|p=|pp=345–350}}{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=69|ps=: "B. Sergent a démontré de façon convaincante (REA 40 [1988], 329-358) que les Bebrukes d'Anatolie étaient un peuple celtique et non pas thrace"}}
Name
Classical linguists considered the name of Bebryces related to the thracian tribe Bryges, which was later renamed to Phryges (Phrygians),[https://anastrophe.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/perseus/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekNov21&getid=2&query=Str.%207.3.2 Strabo, Geography § 7.3.2][https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=5:chapter=41&highlight=mysi Pliny the Elder, The Natural History § 5.41] based on the geographic proximity, as well as the migration route of the Phrygians known from ancient myths.[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:id=phrygia-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PACATIANA, PHRY´GIA][https://time.graphics/period/3124876 Bithyni / Bryges / Bebryces Thracian Tribe — Phrygians (jan 2, 3000 BC — jan 1, 690 BC) (Timeline)]
B. Sergent suggests that the name Bebryces could be related to the Celtic tribes Bebruces, living in the Pyrenees, and Briboci, dwelling in Britain,{{Sfn|Sergent|1988|p=346}} all ultimately stemming from Proto-Celtic *brebu ('beaver'; see Gaulish bebros, bebrus, Old Irish Bibar, 'beaver').{{Sfn|Sergent|1988|p=|pp=345–350}}{{Sfn|Matasović|2009|p=59}} Ivan Duridanov also suggested that the ethnonym was related to Indo-European words meaning "beaver".{{cite book|first=Ivan|last=Duridanov | title=Die Sprache der Thraker | series=Bulgarische Sammlung | volume= 5 | publisher=Hieronymus Verlag | year=1985 | page = 67 | isbn=3-88893-031-6 | language= de}}
The same word denotes beaver in Slavic Languages (*bebrus in Proto-Balto-Slavic, bober in Slovenian, bobar in Bulgarian, bobr in Russian).Czech Etymological DictionaryRomanian Etymologial Dictionary
History
According to legend they were defeated by Heracles or the Dioscuri,Apollonius of Rhodes{{full citation needed|date=July 2023}} who killed their king, Mygdon or Amycus. Their land was then given to King Lycus of the Mariandynians, who built the city Heraclea there. Some say Amycus was a brother of Mygdon and another Bebrycian king; both were sons of Poseidon and Melia. Greek mythology offers two different accounts for the origin of the name 'Bebryces': either from a woman named Bebryce (Eustath. ad Dionysius Periegetes 805.), or from a hero named Bebryx (or Bebrycus) (Steph. Byz. s.v. Bebrycus). Bebryce is possibly the same as Bryce, a daughter of Danaus, a mythical King of Libya and Arabia (Apollodorus). Bebryx was also the father of Pyrene.
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References
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C3BKPgAACAAJ|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|last=Delamarre|first=Xavier|date=2003|publisher=Errance|isbn=9782877723695|language=fr}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN_YPQAACAAJ|title=Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic|last=Matasović|first=Ranko|date=2009|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004173361|language=en}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Sergent|first=Bernard|author-link=Bernard Sergent|date=1988|title=Les premiers Celtes d'Anatolie|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rea_0035-2004_1988_num_90_3_4340|journal=Revue des Études Anciennes|volume=90|issue=3|pages=329–358|doi=10.3406/rea.1988.4340}}
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
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Category:Ancient tribes in Thrace
Category:Greek mythology of Anatolia
Category:Mythology of Heracles
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