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BISTONES (Βίστονες, οἱ)

CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Thracian tribe living east of the NESTUS RIVER in northern Greece (BA 51 D2). XERXES led his Persian invasion force through Bistonian territory in 480 BCE and compelled them to join the army (7.110). The Bistones are not well‐attested historically (Strabo 7 F18a Radt; Ps.‐Scymnus 673–75), though the name is used by Hellenistic (and, later, Roman) poets to refer to THRACE (e.g., Ap. Rhod. 2.704). In Greek MYTH, DIOMEDES was said to have ruled over the Bistones until he was killed by HERACLES (Eur. Alc. 485; Apollod. Bibl. 2.5.8).