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ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)

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According to Solinus and Justin, Emathia was named after the Samothracian king Emathion and not after the local Emathus. The etymology of the name has been related to Homeric Greek amathos and êmathoessa (< PIE *samadh) 'sandy land', i. e. the coastal, swampy land around Axius river, in contrast to mountainous Macedonia, probably also intended as 'meadow land' (cf. PIE *mē-2, *m-e-t- 'to mow, to reap').
According to Solinus and Justin, Emathia was named after the Samothracian king Emathion and not after the local Emathus. The etymology of the name has been related to Homeric Greek amathos and êmathoessa (< PIE *samadh) 'sandy land', i. e. the coastal, swampy land around Axius river, in contrast to mountainous Macedonia, probably also intended as 'meadow land' (cf. PIE *mē-2, *m-e-t- 'to mow, to reap').


The Homeric name was renewed mainly in Roman times and Ptolemy mentions some cities of Emathia. In Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.6 Typhoeus having stript the mountains of Emathia, he cast the rocky missiles at Dionysus. In Ovidius, Metamorphoses 5.313 the daughters of Pierus say: we grant Emathia's plains, to where uprise Paeonia's peaks of snow. The Emathian or Emathius dux is a frequently used name by Latin poets for Alexander the Great, as in Milton, the Emathian conqueror . Strabo relates that what is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia but since Homer, the earliest source considers Emathia only a region next to Pieria, Strabo's reference should be interpreted in the Roman era context of Emathia's name reviving. The same stands for Latin writers who name Thessaly as Emathia ; Macedonia (Roman province) included Thessaly. In 12.462 of Metamorphoses, an Emathian Halesus is killed by the centaur Latreus and in Catullus 64. 324, Peleus is Emathiae tutamen (protector).
The Homeric name was renewed mainly in Roman times and Ptolemy mentions some cities of Emathia. In Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.6 Typhoeus having stript the mountains of Emathia, he cast the rocky missiles at Dionysus. In Ovidius, Metamorphoses 5.313 the daughters of Pierus say: we grant Emathia's plains, to where uprise Paeonia's peaks of snow. The Emathian or Emathius dux is a frequently used name by Latin poets for [[Alexander the Great]], as in Milton, the Emathian conqueror . Strabo relates that what is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia but since Homer, the earliest source considers Emathia only a region next to Pieria, Strabo's reference should be interpreted in the Roman era context of Emathia's name reviving. The same stands for Latin writers who name Thessaly as Emathia ; Macedonia (Roman province) included Thessaly. In 12.462 of Metamorphoses, an Emathian Halesus is killed by the centaur Latreus and in Catullus 64. 324, Peleus is Emathiae tutamen (protector).


Polybius (23.10.4) mentions that Emathia was earliest called Paeonia and Strabo (frg 7.38) that Paeonia was extended to Pieria and Pelagonia. According to Hammond the references are related to Bronze Age period before the Trojan War.
Polybius (23.10.4) mentions that Emathia was earliest called Paeonia and Strabo (frg 7.38) that Paeonia was extended to Pieria and Pelagonia. According to Hammond the references are related to Bronze Age period before the Trojan War.

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French (Bailly abrégé)

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Émathie, anc. n. de la Macédoine.

Wikipedia EN

Emathia (Greek: Ἠμαθία) was the name of the plain opposite the Thermaic Gulf when the kingdom of Macedon was formed. The name was used to define the area between the rivers Aliakmon and Loudias, which, because it was the center of the kingdom, was also called Macedonia. Emathia was one of the six earliest provinces of Macedon and was bordered on the west by Orestis, on the north was separated from Bisaltia by river Loudias, and on the south was separated from Pieria by river Aliakmon.

According to Solinus and Justin, Emathia was named after the Samothracian king Emathion and not after the local Emathus. The etymology of the name has been related to Homeric Greek amathos and êmathoessa (< PIE *samadh) 'sandy land', i. e. the coastal, swampy land around Axius river, in contrast to mountainous Macedonia, probably also intended as 'meadow land' (cf. PIE *mē-2, *m-e-t- 'to mow, to reap').

The Homeric name was renewed mainly in Roman times and Ptolemy mentions some cities of Emathia. In Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.6 Typhoeus having stript the mountains of Emathia, he cast the rocky missiles at Dionysus. In Ovidius, Metamorphoses 5.313 the daughters of Pierus say: we grant Emathia's plains, to where uprise Paeonia's peaks of snow. The Emathian or Emathius dux is a frequently used name by Latin poets for Alexander the Great, as in Milton, the Emathian conqueror . Strabo relates that what is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia but since Homer, the earliest source considers Emathia only a region next to Pieria, Strabo's reference should be interpreted in the Roman era context of Emathia's name reviving. The same stands for Latin writers who name Thessaly as Emathia ; Macedonia (Roman province) included Thessaly. In 12.462 of Metamorphoses, an Emathian Halesus is killed by the centaur Latreus and in Catullus 64. 324, Peleus is Emathiae tutamen (protector).

Polybius (23.10.4) mentions that Emathia was earliest called Paeonia and Strabo (frg 7.38) that Paeonia was extended to Pieria and Pelagonia. According to Hammond the references are related to Bronze Age period before the Trojan War.

Wikipedia RU

Эматия, Эмафия, Иматия (др.-греч. Ἠμαθίη, «песчаная») — в древности так называлась прибрежная песчаная равнина, низменная и болотистая, при устье македонских рек Аксия, Галиакмона и Лудия (Ройдия), носившая также имя Македониды и считавшаяся исконной территорией македонской ветви эллинов.

Эматия была населена греческим племенем, находившимся в ближайшем родстве с дорянами, причём только вследствие тесной политической связи с иллирийскими и фракийскими племенами и неучастия в фессалийско-дельфийской амфиктионии оно в древнейшую пору греческой истории считалось не греческим.

Главным городом области и, вместе с тем, древнейшей резиденцией македонских царей были Эги (Эгеи), в северо-западной части равнины. Высокий акрополь Эг до конца Македонского царства оставался местом погребения македонских царей; пригород же Эг, расположенный на равнине под акрополем, постепенно разросся до размеров значительного города, который был известен под именем Эдессы и служил резиденцией македонских царей до Филиппа II, здесь убитого. При последнем резиденция династии была перенесена в Пеллу, лежавшую в центре упомянутой равнины и защищённую кольцом озёр и болот; несмотря на неблагоприятные климатические условия, Пелла оставалась главным городом области до падения Македонского царства (168 до н. э.). Южная часть эматийской равнины носила название Боттиэиды, которая была первоначально населена неэллинским племенем боттиями; главным городом этой части Эматии была Бероя — у подошвы горы Бермия. Другие более крупные города Эматии — Китий, Кирр, Эвроп, Гортиния.

В общем смысле слово Эматия употреблялось (в частности Гомером и Гесиодом) для обозначения Македонии в целом.