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The Scythians ( or ) or Scyths (), also known as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained until the 3rd century BC.

classical antiquity

age of the ancient Greeks and Romans

Greco-Roman world

regions historically influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the ancient Greeks and Romans

clothing in ancient Egypt

aspect of history

history of science in classical antiquity

aspect of history

method of numbering years used by the Church of Alexandria beginning in the 4th century AD and by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria from the 5th century

list of Graeco-Roman geographers

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Transmission of the Greek Classics

Greek East and Latin West

division of the Greco-Roman world into eastern Greek and western Latin parts

Classical tradition

reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by the post-classical Western world

Paradoxography is a genre of classical literature which deals with the occurrence of abnormal or inexplicable phenomena of the natural or human worlds (Latin mirabilia, 'marvels, miracles'). The term paradoxographos (paradoxographer) was coined by Tzetzes.

magic in the Greco-Roman world

essay on the study of magic in the Greco-Roman world

classical antiquity

Roman hairstyles

ways to style hair in the ancient Rome

thumb|Persian Empire 500 BC Map showing Persis and Utians The Utians or Utii were ancient western Iranic nomadic camel-driving people, known primarily through the writings of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus describes them as "dressed in skin with the hair on".

Paroikoi (plural of Greek πάροικος, paroikos, the etymological origin of parish and parochial) is the term that replaced "metic" in the Hellenistic and Roman period to designate foreign residents.

Greco-Roman hairstyles

various ways to style hair that were popular among the Greeks and the Romans in the ancient world

thumb|right|A possible (the first cut from A Dictionary of Greek...) thumb|right| (the second cut from A Dictionary of Greek...) thumb|right|An 1800s samovar, for comparison In classical antiquity, an ' or ' (, ; from + , "self-boiling", "self-cooking") was a vessel used for water heating. Basically, it was a vase with a central tube used to keep coals.