The Toutobodiaci were a small Celtic tribe of Galatia in central Anatolia, known from a single mention by Pliny. They were a subdivision of the larger Tectosages.

Name

The Toutobodiaci are named only by Pliny and are not otherwise attested.[1][2]

The name is a Celtic compound of touto- ('people, tribe') and boudi- ('victory, advantage').[3][4]

Ethnic identity

The Toutobodiaci were a subdivision of the Tectosages, one of the smaller groupings that persisted beside the three dominant Galatian tribes, the Trocmi, the Tectosages and the Tolistobogii.[2][5]

They are recorded as having occupied a part of Galatia together with the Tectosages.[6] The location given for them in this account conflicts with more reliable evidence from Strabo, which places the Tectosages in central Galatia.[6][5] They are counted among the Galatian peoples proper, as distinct from Gaulish mercenary bands such as the Aigosages and the Rigosages.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Pliny. Natural History, 5:146.
  2. 1 2 Mitchell 1993, p. 43.
  3. ↑ Delamarre 2003, pp. 83–84.
  4. ↑ Matasović 2009, pp. 386–387.
  5. 1 2 Strobel 1996, p. 252.
  6. 1 2 Mitchell 1993, p. 51.
  7. ↑ Coşkun 2012, p. 91.

Primary sources

  • Pliny the Elder (1942). Natural History, Volume II: Books 3–7. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Bibliography

  • Coşkun, Altay (2012). "Belonging and Isolation in Central Anatolia: The Galatians in the Graeco-Roman World". In Ager, Sheila; Faber, Riemer (eds.). Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 73–95.
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ISBN 978-2-87772-369-5.
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic. Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series. Vol. 9. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1.
  • Mitchell, Stephen (1993). Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor. Volume I: The Celts in Anatolia and the Impact of Roman Rule. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Strobel, Karl (1996). Die Galater: Geschichte und Eigenart der keltischen Staatenbildung auf dem Boden des hellenistischen Kleinasien. Band I (in German). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
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