Abrotonum () Abrotonon, pronounced Avrotonon can refer to:
*Abrotonon, 6th-century BC was a
Thracian
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, the mother of
Themistocles
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. There is an
epigram
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preserved Book VII of Anthologia Palatina (Epitaphs):
*Abrotonon, the name of a
hetaera
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.
Plutarch
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refers to an Abrotonon from Thrace in his ''Erotikos'' (). In the first dialogue of ''Dialogues of the Courtesans'' of
Lucian
Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridi ...
the name of an hetaera named Abrotonon is also mentioned.
*Abrotonum, a plant of this name is mentioned from
Pliny the Elder
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in his work
Natural History
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Abrotonum Abrotonum () Abrotonon, pronounced Avrotonon can refer to:
*Abrotonon, 6th-century BC was a Thracians, Thracian, the mother of Themistocles. There is an epigram preserved Book VII of Anthologia Palatina (Epitaphs):
*Abrotonon, the name of a heta ...
, a Phoenician city on the coast of North Africa, in the district of Tripolitana, between the Syrtes, usually identified with
Sabratha
Sabratha (; also ''Sabratah'', ''Siburata''), in the Zawiya DistrictPliny makes them different places.