I have a strange question for you all. I doubt anyone would know the answer, but this seems to be the most appropriate board.
Who is the earliest known named European person? I'm guessing it would be a king, probably from Greece.
Also, I'd like to exclude mythological people from this for obvious reasons. The oldest non-mythological European person I could name would probably be Pericles.
You mean outside of myth?
>>1767359
Yes. One that's historically attested.
This is the oldest one I can find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleisthenes_of_Sicyon
>>1767392
>Cleisthenes (/ˈklaJsθəˌniːz/; Greek: Κλεισθένης, also Clisthenes or Kleisthenes) was the tyrant of Sicyon from c. 600–560 BC, who aided in the First Sacred War against Kirrha that destroyed that city in 595 BC. He was also said to have organized with success a war against Argos because of his anti-Dorian feelings. After his victory he abolished all the rhapsodists of Homer, because they vaunted the citizens of Argos.
Fuck, I don't know what any of this means.
>>1767416
All I know is that he was born some time in the 600s BC. That's the oldest European I know of
>>1767331
The Linear B corpus, much at least as old as the 14th century BC, includes plenty of names.
e.g.
>Kerowos the shepherd at Asijatija watching over the quadrupeds of Thalamatas
>>1767392
I mean, you could check the categories and go a little further back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:8th-century_BC_Greek_people
>>1767431
pre greeks too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelasgians
>>1767331
>Who is the earliest known named European person? I'm guessing it would be a king, probably from Greece.
A king ? No, it's a sheperd.
King names do not need to be written down as much as those of merchants and such. So we have a lot of names in Linear B from ancient nobodies, and they're the earliest.
>>1767331
>Galicia
>Navarra
>Countries
>>1767331
What the fuck is this retarded map?
>>1768360
le ebin GroB-Germaniums Reich autism
>>1767331
Ötzi
>>1768678
retard
Cadmus
>>1767331
Good map, Suomi suureksi :DDD