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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Nomadic Libyan (North African) tribe dwelling on the shores of the ancient Lake TRITON (BA 35 B1), the Chott el Djerid in modern‐day Tunisia; their exact location is unknown, but Herodotus makes them the last of the nomad Libyans toward the west (4.191.1). He offers a brief ethnographic description of the Auseans (4.180), including the annual FESTIVAL for their ancestral goddess (ATHENA from the Greek viewpoint) at which two groups of Ausean maidens fight a battle. An Ausean origin has been proposed for an unusual statuette taken from Libya during World War II (Rovik 2002, 92–93).

SEE ALSO: Ethnography; Libya; Nomads; Women in the Histories