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AUTOCHTHONES (Gr. drabs, and xO(:ov, earth, i.e. people sprung from earth itself; Lat. terrigenae; see also under ABORIGINES)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 45 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AUTOCHTHONES (Gr. drabs, and xO(:ov, earth, i.e. people sprung from earth itself; Lat. terrigenae; see also under ABORIGINES) , the
original
  inhabitants of a country as opposed to settlers, and those of their descendants who kept themselves free from an admixture of foreign peoples. The practice in ancient
Greece
  of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as " earthborn " greatly strengthened the
doctrine
  of autochthony; for instance, the Athenians wore golden grasshoppers in their
hair
  in token that they were born from the soil and had always lived in Attica (
Thucydides
  i. 6; Plato, Menexenus, 245). In Thebes, the race of Sparti were believed to have sprung from a field sown with dragons' teeth. The Phrygian
Corybantes
  had been forced out of the hill-side like trees by Rhea, the
great
 
mother
 , and hence were called SevSpodweis. It is clear from Aeschylus (Prometheus, 447) that primitive men were supposed to have at first lived like animals in caves and
woods
 , till by the help of the gods and heroes they were raised to a stage of civilization.


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