The Magnetes were an ancient Greek tribe. In book 2 of the Iliad, Homer includes them in the Greek army that is besieging Troy, and identifies their homeland Magnesia in Thessaly, corresponding roughly to what is still known as Magnesia. Later, they participated in the Greek colonisation of Western Anatolia by founding two prosperous cities in Ionia: Magnesia on the Maeander and Magnesia ad Sipylum.