The Atintanes are mentioned in classical antiquity by Thucydides (2.80.6), Pseudo-Skylax (26), Pseudo-Aristotle ("Mir." 833a 9), Lycophron ("Alexandra" 1042-1046), Polybius (2.5; 11.11; 7.9.13), Strabo (7.7.8 Baladié), Livy (27.30.13; 29.12.13; 45.30.7), Appian ("Illyrike" 7-8), Polyaenus (4.11.4), Stephanus of Byzantium ("s.v." Ἀτιντάνία) and on a 4th century B.C. inscription from Dodona ("SGDI" 1336). They are reported on the above ancient sources in the historical context of the Peloponnesian War, the Roman-Illyrian Wars, the first Roman-Macedonian War, and the 167 BC Roman settlement of Macedonia.