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33a - The Scythians

from 33 - Scythia and Thrace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2008

By
T. Sulimirski  and
T. Taylor
Edited by
John Boardman ,
I. E. S. Edwards ,
E. Sollberger  and
N. G. L. Hammond
T. Sulimirski
Affiliation:
University of Bradford
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PROLEGOMENA

In the first half of the first millennium B.C., new and powerful nomadic groups emerged on the Eurasian steppes to pose a military threat to more southerly urban and literate states and empires. By the sixth century B.C. a complex ‘core–periphery’ system had developed, in which true nomadism was only one element. The economic structure of steppe life changed and large-scale trade developed between the Greek Black Sea colonies and the vast new fortified centres of Scythian power.

The nomads can be traced at first archaeologically; later some names are attached to them in ancient texts. The most famous of these groups was known to the Greeks as the Scythians, against whom, Herodotus tells us, Darius the Great of Persia launched a massive and unsuccessful punitive expedition (CAH IV, 235ff). This chapter concerns the Scythians' rise to fame rather than their disappearance. By 500 B.C. they constituted one of the most powerful military forces in the known world.

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Print publication year: 1992

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