page_title: List of ancient Greek tribes
section_title: Iron Age: Archaic and Classical Greece (from circa 800 BC)
hierarchical_section_title: List of ancient Greek tribes / Greek tribes / Iron Age: Archaic and Classical Greece (from circa 800 BC)
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the regions of Ancient Epirus and Macedon.
context_page_description: The ancient Greek tribes were groups of Greek-speaking populations living in Greece, Cyprus, and the various Greek colonies. They were primarily divided by geographic, dialectal, political, and cultural criteria, as well as distinct traditions in mythology and religion. Some groups were of mixed origin, forming a syncretic culture through absorption and assimilation of previous and neighboring populations into the Greek language and customs. Greek word for tribe was Phylē and Phylai, the tribe was further subdivided in Demes roughly matching to a clan.
  With the dominion of land passing on from one tribe to the other, cultural exchange through art and trade, and frequent alliances toward common goals, the ethnic character of the different tribes had become primarily political by the dawn of the Hellenistic period. The Roman conquest of Greece, the subsequent division of the Roman Empire into Greek East and Latin West, as well as the advent of Christianity, molded the common ethnic and political Greek identity once and for all to the subjects of the Greek world by the 3rd century AD.
context_section_description: Hellenes (Archaic and Classical Greece after Late Bronze Age collapse and Dorian Invasion)
  Central and Eastern Greek tribes (Aeolians, Achaeans and Ionians)
  Achaeans (Broader sense) - They lived in Eastern, East Central and Southern Greece (Mycenean Greece) before Dorian migrations or Dorian invasions (after that most Achaeans were displaced or assimilated by Dorians in Southern Greece regions, except for Arcadia). They spoke Mycenean Greek that was the ancestor of Aeolic, Arcado-Cypriot and Ionic Greek dialects of Classical Greece.
  Central Greek tribes (Aeolians and Achaeans)
  Aeolians - They spoke Aeolic Greek dialects (archaic dialects that preserved some Mycenean Greek features).
  Boeotians - They lived in Boeotia (Aonia)
  Dryopes - They lived in Dryopis, later known as Doris (after driven out by the Malians, a Dorian tribe, many scattered to other Greek regions, mostly towards far southern of Euboea Island).
  Thessalians - They lived in Thessaly (Thessalia/Aeolia). Mount Olympus is on the border between Thessaly and Macedon.
  Achaeans, Phtiothis - They lived in Achaea Phthiotis.
  Dolopes? - They lived in Dolopia (mostly considered a Thessalian tribe)
  Histiaeoteans - They lived in Histiaeotis, Thessaly's Northwest district.
  Thessalians Proper - They lived in Thessaliotis.
  Aeolian Diaspora
  Asia Minor Aeolians - They lived in Aeolis, Northwestern Anatolian coast.
  Lesbians - They lived in Lesbos Island.
  Achaeans (Narrower sense) (Arcado-Cyprian tribes) - They spoke Arcado-Cypriot Greek dialects (archaic dialects that preserved some Mycenean Greek features).
  Arcadians - They lived in Arcadia (Central Peloponnese Peninsula) and were a pre-Dorian invasion or Dorian migration Greek tribal confederation.
  Azanes
  Triphylians - They were a group of three tribes (Tri - Three, Phylai -Tribes) that lived in Western Peloponnese, in southern part of Elis (south of Alpheiós river) but saw themselves as Arcadians and not Eleans.
  Amphidolians
  Letrinians
  Marganians
  Achaean Diaspora
  Cypriots - They lived in Cyprus Island
  Pamphylians - They lived in Pamphylia (South-West Anatolia).
  Eastern Greek tribes (Ionians)
  Ionians - They spoke Ionic Greek dialects (basis of the Greek Koiné and his descendant Modern Greek).
  Oldest tribes (Phylai)
  Agikoreis
  Argadeis
  Geleontes
  Hopletes
  Attics - They lived in Attica (included ancient Athenians) (Marathon is in Attica)
  Aiantis (named after Ajax) (Aeschylus was a member of this tribe)
  Aigeis (named after Aegeus)
  Akamantis/Acamantis (named after Acamas) (Pericles was a member of this tribe)
  Antiochis (named after Antiochus, son of Heracles) (Socrates was a member of this tribe)
  Erechtheis (named after Erechtheus) (Critias may also have been a member of this tribe)
  Hippothontis (named after Hippothoon)
  Kekropis (named after Cécrops)
  Leontis (named after Leos, son of Orpheus) (Themistocles was a member of this tribe)
  Oineis (named after Oeneus)
  Pandionis (named after Pandion)
  Euboeans (West Ionians) - They lived in Euboea Island.
  Abantes
  Euboean Diaspora
  Chalcidicians, Euboean - They lived in the Peninsula of Chalcidicia (many were descendants from Euboean colonies from the cities of Chalcis and Eretria).
  Catanians - They lived in Catania, Magna Graecia (many were descendants from a Euboean colony from the city of Chalcis).
  Cumaeans - They lived in Cumae, that was founded by settlers from Euboea island (from Chalcis and Eretria cities) in Magna Graecia. It was one of the Greek colonies that most influenced ancient Etruscan and Roman cultures, namely by the introduction of the Alphabet. Cumae by itself was the Metropolis of other poleis in southern Italy coast, including Nea Polis (New City), today's Naples (it was to the West and close of Naples).
  Neapolitans - They lived in Naples (many were descendants from Rhodean and Ionic colonies, the last ones were more numerous).
  Ionians, Cycladian (Central Ionians) - They lived in Cyclades Islands. Delos Island that had the important Delos sanctuary was in this group of islands.
  Cycladian Diaspora
  Chalcidicians, Cycladian - They lived in the Peninsula of Chalcidicia (many
caption: Ancient Regions of Epirus and Macedon.
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