Agathyrsi
Sign in to saveThe Agathyrsi were an ancient people belonging to the Scythian cultures who lived in Pryazovia before being later displaced by the Scythians into the Transylvanian Plateau, in the region that later became Dacia. The Agathyrsi are largely known from Herodotus of Halicarnassus's description of them in the 5th century BC.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Agathyrsi
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Agathyrsi in the Balkans - closeup.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- The Agathyrsi lived in Transylvania when they first appeared in historical records
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- Pontic Steppe (9th–8th century BC) Moldavia, Transylvania, Oltenia (7th–3rd century BC)
- Ethnic group.langs
- ScythianGetic
- Ethnic group.religions
- Scythian religionThracian religion
- Ethnic group.related
- Cimmerians, Dacians, Getae, Massagetae, Saka, Sarmatians, Scythians, Thracians
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
34 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Origins
- Beginning of steppe nomadism
- Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex
- In the Pontic Steppe
- Displacement of the Agathyrsi
- In the Balkans
- The Trausi
- Scythian influence
- Persian invasion of Scythia
- Death of Ariapeithes
- Celtic immigration
- Ethnogenesis of the Dacians
- Legacy
- Culture and society
- Location
- In the Pontic Steppe
- In the Balkans
- Ethnicity
- Social organisation
- Language
- Gender roles
- Lifestyle
- Dress
- Hair dyeing
- Tattooing
- Religion
- Other customs
- Archaeology
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
The Agathyrsi were an ancient people belonging to the Scythian cultures who lived in Pryazovia before being later displaced by the Scythians into the Transylvanian Plateau, in the region that later became Dacia. The Agathyrsi are largely known from Herodotus of Halicarnassus's description of them in the 5th century BC.
== Name == The name is the Latinisation of the Ancient Greek name (), which was itself the Hellenized form of a Scythian name whose original form is not attested.
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