The Pandi (or Pandae) in
Medieval bestiaries and Greco-Roman geographic works were a race of giant-eared people with eight fingers and toes and white hair that turned black with age. In his
''Indica'', the historian
Ctesias
Ctesias (; grc-gre, Κτησίας; fl. fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria, then part of the Achaemenid Empire.
Historical events
Ctesias, who lived in the fi ...
located them in the mountains of India; he describes them as a warlike race of bowmen and spearmen and claims that they are born with a full set of teeth.
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' ...
, in his
''Natural History'', adds that they live for two hundred years.
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Panotti
The Panotti (also called Phanesii, Panotii and Panotioi, from the Greek words πᾶν and οὖς for "all ears") were a mythical race of people, described as possessing large ears that covered their entire bodies.
Pliny the Elder
In AD 77–7 ...
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Macrobians
The Macrobians (Μακροβίοι) were an ancient Proto-Somali tribal kingdom positioned in the Horn of Africa mentioned by Herodotus.Herodotus, the Histories book 3.114 They are one of the legendary peoples postulated at the extremity of the ...
References
Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography
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