{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0551.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0551.tlg012.local001","title":"Ἰλλυρική","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Appian of Alexandria","authorityName":"APPIANUS Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0551-appianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0551-appianus/","editors":["Ludwig Mendelssohn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Appiani Historia Romana","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1879","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":[],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Anne Mahoney","David Mimno"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxjtm3?urlappend=%3Bseq=379","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Appian Of Alexandria. Ἰλλυρική. ed. Ludwig Mendelssohn. Appiani Historia Romana, Leipzig, Teubner, 1879. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0551.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"Ἰλλυριοὺς Ἕλληνες ἡγοῦνται τοὺς ὑπέρ τε Μακεδονίαν καὶ Θρᾴκην ἀπὸ Χαόνων καὶ Θεσπρωτῶν ἐπὶ ποταμὸν Ἴστρον. καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐστὶ τῆς χώρας τὸ μῆκος, εὖρος δʼ ἐκ Μακεδόνων τε καὶ Θρᾳκῶν τῶν ὀρείων ἐπὶ Παιονας καὶ τὸν Ἰόνιον καὶ τὰ πρόποδα τῶν Ἄλπεων. καὶ ἔστι τὸ μὲν εὖρος ἡμερῶν πέντε, τὸ δὲ μῆκος τριάκοντα, καθὰ καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν εἴρηται. Ῥωμαίων δὲ τὴν χώραν μετρησαμένων ἔστιν ὑπὲρ ἑξακισχιλίους σταδίους τὸ μῆκος, καὶ τὸ πλάτος ἀμφὶ τοὺς χιλίους καὶ διακοσίους. φασὶ δὲ τὴν μὲν χώραν ἐπώνυμον Ἰλλυριοῦ τοῦ Πολυφήμου γενέσθαι· Πολυφήμῳ γὰρ τῷ Κύκλωπι καὶ Γαλατείᾳ Κελτὸν καὶ Ἰλλυριὸν καὶ Γάλαν παῖδας ὄντας ἐξορμῆσαι Σικελίας, καὶ ἄρξαι τῶν διʼ αὐτοὺς Κελτῶν καὶ Ἰλλυριῶν καὶ Γαλατῶν λεγομένων. καὶ τόδε μοι μάλιστα, πολλὰ μυθευόντων ἕτερα πολλῶν, ἀρέσκει. Ἰλλυριῷ δὲ παῖδας Ἐγχέλεα καὶ Αὐταριέα καὶ Δάρδανον καὶ Μαῖδον καὶ Ταύλαντα καὶ Περραιβὸν γενέσθαι, καὶ θυγατέρας Παρθὼ καὶ Δαορθὼ καὶ Δασσαρὼ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001/#tlg0551-tlg012-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001/#tlg0551-tlg012-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001/#tlg0551-tlg012-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001/#tlg0551-tlg012-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001/#tlg0551-tlg012-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0551.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}