Aithiopia

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Bronze Age
Several notable personalities in Greek and medieval literature were identified as Aethiopian, including several rulers, male and female:  Menon and his brother Emathion, King of Arabia. Homer in his description of the Trojan War (c.1200-1100 BC)  mentions several other Aethiopians. Potelmy  the geographer and other ancient Greek commentators believed that the "Aethiopian Olympus was where the gods lived when they were not in Greece.

Iron Age
Ancient greek poet Homer (c. 8th century BC) is the first to mention "Aethiopians" (Αἰθίοπες, Αἰθιοπῆες); he mentions that they are to be found at the southern extremities of the world, divided by the sea into "eastern" (at the sunrise) and "western" (at the sunset). the hesiod (c. 8th century BC) speaks of Menom as the "King of Aethiopia".

In 515 BC, Scylax of Caryanda on orders from Darius the Great of Persia sailed along the Indus River, Indian Ocean and Red Sea, circumnavigating the Arabian peninsula He mentioned Aethiopians, but his writings on them have not survived. Hicataeus of Miletus  (c. 500 BC) is also said to have written a book about Aethiopia, but his writing is now known only through quotations from later authors. He stated that Aethiopia was located to the east of the Nile, as far as the Red Sea and Indian Ocean; he is also quoted as relating a myth that the Skiapods "(Shade feet") lived there, whose feet were supposedly large enough to serve as shade.

Classical Age
The Egyptian priest Manetho (c. 300 BC) listed Egypt's Kushite (25th) dynasty, calling it the "Aethiopian dynasty". Moreover, when the Hebrew bible  was translated into Greek (c. 200 BC), the Hebrew appellation "Kush, Kushite" became in Greek "Aethiopia, Aethiopians", appearing as "Ethiopia, Ethiopians" in the English King James version

Greek and Roman historians of a later era, such as Siculus and Strabo, confirmed much of Herodotus' account of several distinct nations within the vast region of "Ethiopia" south of the Sahara desert, such as the Troglodyte and Ichthypogi, described as living all along the African Red Sea coast (in modern day Sudan and Eritrea and Somalia ), as well as several other peoples farther west. These authors also described second-hand stories of the mountainous part of Ethiopia where the Nile was said to rise. Strabo also stated that some previous authors had considered Aethiopia's northern border to begin at Mount Amanus, thus including all of modern day Syria, Israel and Arabia.

Pliny the Elder described Adulis, which port he said was the Ethiopians' principal trading town. He names one Aethiops (i.e. "burnt-face") as the eponymous ancestor of the Aethiopians, fittingly said to be a son of the smith-god Hephaestus (aka Vulcan).