Abrotonum Explained

Abrotonum (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀβρότονον) Abrotonon, pronounced Avrotonon can refer to:

• Abrotonon, 6th-century BC was a Thracian, the mother of Themistocles.^{[1] [2]} There is an epigram preserved Book VII of Anthologia Palatina (Epitaphs):^[3]
• Abrotonon, the name of a hetaera. Plutarch refers to an Abrotonon from Thrace in his Erotikos (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἐρωτικός).^[4] In the first dialogue of Dialogues of the Courtesans of Lucian the name of an hetaera named Abrotonon is also mentioned.^[5]
• Abrotonum, a plant of this name is mentioned from Pliny the Elder in his work Natural History^[6]
• Abrotonum, a Phoenician city on the coast of North Africa, in the district of Tripolitana, between the Syrtes, usually identified with Sabratha though Pliny makes them different places.^{[7] [8]}

Notes and References

1. [:el:s:Βίοι Παράλληλοι/Θεμιστοκλής#1|, Plutarch Θεμιστοκλής (Themistocles), chapt. 1]
2. [Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=-aM-AAAAcAAJ&dq=Anthologia%20Graeca%20ad%20fidem%20codicis%20Jacobs&pg=PA395 Anthologia Palatina, Epitaphs, Book 7, epigram 306 (AP VII 306)
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=6cYBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA16 Plutarchi Eroticus et Eroticae narrationes
5. [Lucian]
6. [Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]
7. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
8. Abrotonum.