[tied] Re: Germanic Scythians?

George wrote

> *****GK: If you mean Zopirion, then no. Zopirion was
> Alexander's general in Thrace. In 331 BC he attempted
> to conquer Olbia. His army (numbering 30,000+) was
> completely annihilated by the Scythians.== If you mean
> the Scythians, then yes. The last significant "royal"
> tomb of classical Scythia was recently excavated by a
> consortium of Polish and Ukrainian archaeologists. It
> is located fairly close to Kyiv, and dated ca. 275-->
> BC. In the period 275-225 BC the Sarmatians (Iazygi
> and Roxolani)wiped out most of the Scythians of
> Eastern Ukraine, while most of those who resided in
> Western Ukraine (led by the Auchata/Aratores) migrated
> to the Dobrudja, founding one of the two Scythian
> successor kingdoms known (acc. to Strabo) as Little
> Scythia. Since these migrants were preponderantly
> Thrakoid-speakers, their integration into the local
> population south of the Danube was rather swift. And
> lest I forget, there was also a migrant group which
> sought (and received) asylum from King Ptolemy. They
> founded Scythopolis near the Jordan r.******

I thought Scythopolis (Beth Shean) was named by the Greeks after the
Scythians that had been settled there by Esarhaddon, after his
invasion of Egypt (using Scythian mercenaries).

Regards

John