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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Characters in Herodotus, Tribes described primarily by Herodotus, Scythians, Cambyses II, Anacharsis, Androphagi, Arion, Croesus, Cimmerians, Asia, Ephialtes of Trachis, Histories, Aristagoras, Masistes, Agathyrsi, Cleomenes I, Life of Homer, Harpagus, Tomyris, Massagetae, Astyages, Padaei, Polycrates, Alexander I of Macedon, Neuri, Pheretima, Gelonians, Miltiades the Younger, Candaules, Demaratus, Aristeas, Macrones, Felix Jacoby, Districts of the Achaemenid Empire, Amestris, Kleobis and Biton, Mandane of Media, Budini, Tauri, Mazares, Onomacritus, Argippaeans, Democedes, On the malice of Herodotus, Adeimantus of Corinth, Dienekes, Syloson, Amompharetus, Trausi, Aeimnestus, Zopyrus, Travels with Herodotus, Pythius, Atys, Megabazus, Tellus of Athens, Amyrgians, Thyssagetae, Machlyes, Glaucus of Chios, Mandrocles. Excerpt: The Iron Age Scythians or Scyths (Ancient Greek: ) were an ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. Before 2006, they were believed to have ranged west of the Altai Mountains, until a royal burial was found to the east in Mongolia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in the west. Much of the surviving information about the Scythians comes from the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 440 BC) in his Histories and Ovid in his poem of exile Epistulae ex Ponto, and archaeologically from the depictions of Scythian life shown in relief on exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia. The name "Scythian" has also been used to refer to various peoples seen as similar to the Scythians, or who lived anywhere in a vast area covering present-day Central Asia, Russia, and Ukraine-known until medieval times as Scythia. T...
