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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Libyan (North African) tribe of unknown location. Herodotus (4.184.1–2) places the Atarantes third‐to‐last—just before the ATLANTES—on a chain of oases separated by ten‐day journeys stretching west across the Sahara Desert, starting from EGYPT (4.181). The MANUSCRIPTS of the Histories read “Atlantes,” but evidence from later authors, though confused in some respects, supports the modern emendation to “Atarantes” (combining Nicolaus of Damascus, FGrHist 90 F103u, with Steph. Byz. s.v. Ἄτλαντες (A 520); see Corcella in ALC, 707–8). Herodotus singles out the Atarantes as the only people known to have no personal names (see Harrison 1998, 18); he also notes their custom of cursing at the sun during extremely hot WEATHER.

SEE ALSO: Ethnography; Extremes; Insults; Libya; Oasis