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Scythian archers were paid to guard the walls of Athens, so there was a clear understanding in doing business with barbarians (which is their word).
by alchemism 5y ago
Scythian archers were paid to guard the walls of Athens, so there was a clear understanding in doing business with barbarians (which is their word).
- mc32 5y agoWeren’t Scythians also Greek? Or rather Greeks came from one of the Scythian tribes? Or am I mistaken in my recollection?
- Bayart 5y agoThose we call Scythians now are a group of Eastern Iranian horse-ridding people living on the Eurasian Steppe between modern Romania and Kazakhstan. What Greeks called Scythians was anybody riding a horse and living a bit North. Starting from Late Antiquity they've been completely pushed out of the steppe, at least culturally, by nomads that came from further East (Turkic peoples). The last Eastern Iranian group living North of the Caucasus is the Ossetians.
- w0de0 5y agoIn as much as they probably shared deep ancestors in the Yamnaya culture, haha. But no, that’s not the origin of the Greeks. You’re probably thinking of the Scythian-Greek syncretism that occurred in Greek Crimean colonies during a the Hellenistic (post Alexander) and early Roman periods.