Historia Aethiopica
- Date of account
- Written early 17th century; circulated in manuscript and later editions
- Location
- Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Pedro Páez’s Historia Aethiopica is a major early modern account of Ethiopia, its geography, religions, monuments, animals, and political history. It offers a concrete source for examining Ethiopian dragon, serpent, bird, and marvel traditions in their local and classical contexts. The work matters because Páez combined personal travel with translated reports and inherited authorities, allowing comparison between observation and learned lore. Any alleged aerial-creature passage should be located in the original Portuguese or reliable scholarly edition rather than inferred from later summaries.
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