![]() AccountsĪccording to Herodotus' account, the Persian Emperor Cambyses II upon his conquest of Egypt (525 BC) sent ambassadors to Macrobia, bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian king to entice his submission. Īt the same time, they were reported as being physically distinct from the general inhabitants of the region below the Sahara. They were said to be the "tallest and handsomest of all men". Their name is due to their legendary longevity, an average person supposedly living to the age of 120. It is one of the legendary peoples postulated at the extremity of the known world (from the perspective of the Greeks), in this case in the extreme south, contrasting with the Hyperboreans in the extreme north. Later authors (so Pliny on the authority of Ctesias' Indika) place them in India instead. The Macrobians (Μακροβίοι) were a legendary people and kingdom positioned in the Horn of Africa mentioned by Herodotus. ![]() Reconstruction of the Oikumene (inhabited world) as described by Herodotus in the 5th century BC. ![]()
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