Δαναοί

Etymology

From Δᾰνᾰός (Danaós, “Danaus”).

Pronunciation

Noun

Δᾰνᾰοί • (Danaoí) m pl (genitive Δᾰνᾰῶν); second declension

1. the Danaans, the subjects of Danaus
2. the Greeks
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.42
     • Homer, Iliad 1.56
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.350
     • Homer, Odyssey 4.278
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, A. 66
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 9.72
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 13.145
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 1122
   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Lau.Pall. 142
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 8.6.5
     • Strabo, Geography 12.8.7
   • 300 CE – 400 CE, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.280
     • Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 5.130
   • Palatine Anthology 9.385.11
     • Palatine Anthology 9.385.13

References

• Δαναοί in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Δαναοί in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Δαναοί in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Δαναοί in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
• Δαναοί in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Danai idem, page 1008.
  • Greece idem, page 1011.