Spargapeithes (Scythian King)

	Spargapeithes (Scythian King) Spargapeithes was the name of a number of kings of various peoples belonging to Scythian cultures. * Spargapeithes (Scythian king), a king of the Scythians * Spargapises, a prince of the Massagetae * Spargapeithes (Agathyrsian king) Spargapeithes (Scythian: ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) was the name of a king of the Scythic tribe of the Agathyrsoi. Name Spargapeithes's name originates from the Scythian name , and is composed of the terms , meaning “scion” and “descend ... , a king of the Agathyrsi {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Scythian Cultures The Scytho-Siberian world was an archaeological horizon which flourished across the entire Eurasian Steppe during the Iron Age from approximately the 9th century BC to the 2nd century AD. It included the Scythian, Sauromatian and Sarmatian cultures of Eastern Europe, the Saka-Massagetae and Tasmola cultures of Central Asia, and the Aldy-Bel, Pazyryk and Tagar cultures of south Siberia. The Scythian-Siberian world was characterized by the Scythian triad, which are similar, yet not identical, styles of weapons, horses' bridles, and jewelry and decorative art. The question of how related these cultures were is disputed among scholars. Its peoples were of diverse origins, and included not just Scythians, from which the cultures are named, but other peoples as well, such as the Cimmerians, Massagetae, Saka, Sarmatians, and obscure forest steppe populations. Mostly speakers of the Scythian branch of the Iranian languages, all of these peoples are sometimes co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Spargapeithes (Scythian King) Spargapeithes was the name of a number of kings of various peoples belonging to Scythian cultures. * Spargapeithes (Scythian king), a king of the Scythians * Spargapises, a prince of the Massagetae * Spargapeithes (Agathyrsian king) Spargapeithes (Scythian: ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) was the name of a king of the Scythic tribe of the Agathyrsoi. Name Spargapeithes's name originates from the Scythian name , and is composed of the terms , meaning “scion” and “descend ... , a king of the Agathyrsi {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Scythians The Scythians or Scyths, and sometimes also referred to as the Classical Scythians and the Pontic Scythians, were an Ancient Iranian peoples, ancient Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern * : "In modern scholarship the name 'Sakas' is reserved for the ancient tribes of northern and eastern Central Asia and Eastern Turkestan to distinguish them from the related Massagetae of the Aral region and the Scythians of the Pontic steppes. These tribes spoke Iranian languages, and their chief occupation was nomadic pastoralism." * : "Near the end of the 19th century V.F. Miller (1886, 1887) theorized that the Scythians and their kindred, the Sauromatians, were Iranian-speaking peoples. This has been a popular point of view and continues to be accepted in linguistics and historical science [...]" * : "From the end of the 7th century B.C. to the 4th century B.C. the Central- Eurasian steppes were inhabited by two large groups of kin Iranian-speaking tribes – the Scythians and Sarmatians [.. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Spargapises Spargapises (Saka: ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ; ) was the son of queen Tomyris of the Massagetai. Name () is a Hellenisation of the Saka name , and is composed of the terms , meaning “scion” and “descendant,” and , meaning “decoration” and “adornment.” The name of and those of the Agathyrsian and Scythian kings both named are variants of the same name, and both forms, and , are cognates of the Avestan name (). Life Background was the son of the king of the Massagetai and of his queen, Tomyris. After the death of the king, the widowed Tomyris succeeded him as the ruler of the tribe, and, once he had become old enough, became the leader of the army of the Massagetai. War against Persia When the founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, II, asked for the hand of Tomyris with the intent of acquiring her kingdom through the marriage, she understood 's aims and rejected his proposal. On the advice of the Lydian , Kūruš responded to Tomyris's rej ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]