List of Ancient Greek tribes

This is a list of ancient Greek tribes ,(Ancient Greek,"Έλλήνων έθνη") including Hellenized tribes or peoples.A great number of Ancient Greek tribes lived outside Greece in the Greek colonies.

Tribes and peoples of Ancient Greece and adjacent regions:

Homeric

 * Curetes
 * Pelasgians

Late Bronze Age

 * Mycenaean Greece
 * Achaeans/Ahhiyawa

Iron Age Greece

 * Aeolians
 * Thessalians
 * Magnesians
 * Boeotians
 * Thebans
 * Ionians (Attic-Ionic)
 * Athenians
 * Euboeans
 * Milesians
 * Dorians
 * Spartans
 * Macedonians
 * Epirotes
 * Locrians
 * Cretans
 * Rhodians
 * Aetolians
 * Arcado-Cypriots
 * Arcadians
 * Cypriots

Epirus
Strabo(1st century BC) writes of eleven Epirote tribes and Theopompus(4th century BC) of fourteen.

Thesprotians

 * see Thesprotians

Kassopaei

 * Kassopaei or Kassopaioi

Molossians

 * see Molossians

Dodonaioi
Dodonaioi (Ancient Greek,"Δωδωναίοι") were a Molossian tribe

Arktanoi
Arktanoi were a Molossian tribe .Their city was Eurymenai (Epirus).

Orestae
Orestae ,lived in Orestis (Greek: Ὀρεστίς, mountainous orestias) a region of Upper Macedonia, corresponding roughly to the modern Kastoria Prefecture, West Macedonia, Greece. Its inhabitants were the tribe Orestae. As most of Upper Macedonia, it became part of Macedon only after early 4th century BC; before that it had close relations with Epirus. A silver finger ring of 6th century BC bearing the frequent Orestian name Antiochus has been found in Dodona sanctuary. During the Peloponnesian war, a thousand Orestians under their king Antiochus accompanied the Parauaeans of Epirus. Hecataeus and Strabo identified these mountain kingdoms as of Epirotic stock. Natives of the region were: Pausanias of Orestis, the lover and murderer of Philip II, and three of Alexander's prominent diadochi, Perdiccas (son of Orontes), Seleucus I Nicator (son of Antiochus) and Craterus, son of a noble from Orestis named Alexander.

The region became again independent in 196 BC when the Romans, after defeating Philip V, declared the people free because they had adhered to the Roman cause in the recent war against Macedon. According to Appian, Argos Orestikon (in modern Orestida), rather than Peloponesian Argos, was the homeland of the Argead dynasty.

Elmiotai

 * Elmiotai

Lyncestai

 * Lyncestai ,

Pelagones

 * Pelagones see Pelagonia

Tymphaei
Tymphaei were ancient people of Epirus.Tymphaea' or Tymphaia or Stymphaea was the region they lived in.It was incorporated in Macedon at 350 BC as part of Upper Macedonia. The most famous native of Tymphaia was Polysperchon, a regent of Macedon.

Athamanes
The Athamanes or Athamanians were an ancient tribe in south-eastern Epirus and west Thessaly. The existence of myths about Athamas and Ino in Achaean Phthiotis suggests that the Athamanians were settled there before 1600 BC. They were occasionally allies of Aetolians. Amynander and Theodorus of Athamania are reported kings of Athamanians.

Chaonians

 * see Chaonians

Dexari

 * see Dexari ,

Atintanes

 * Atintanes

Amphilochians

 * Amphilochians ,

Macedon

 * Macedonians

Thrace

 * Thracian Greeks
 * Hellenized Thracians

Scythia

 * Geloni

Pamphylia

 * Pamphylians