THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SCYTHIANS, GETAE AND THE GREEK COLONIES AT THE LOWER DANUBE FROM THE 6TH TO THE 4TH CENTURIES B. C.
Journal Title: Revista Romana de Studii Eurasiatice - Year 2005, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The Author ascertains that at the Lower Danube and in the neighboring territory intense contacts took place in the aforementioned period between Scythians, Getae, Thracians and Greeks. These contacts, through their complexity, created a so-called “problem” in the historical research, equally debated today as it was in the past. To shed light upon these rapports, two large categories of sources are especially used: literary and archaeological (including the epigraphic and numismatic sources). Literary evidence does not allow us to reconstitute much of the “ethnos” (respectively the populations of a certain era or territory), as the history of the ethnonims. As of consequence, the real ethnonimy does not always correspond with the one present in the sources. The ancient sources are briefly presented, starting with Hekataios, Herodot and Thukydides who mention the Getae, sometimes their vicinity with the Scythians, and also other historical evidence which mentions the Getae, Thracians, Scythians, Greeks from West and North-Pontic colonies and other populations. It is ascertained that the Scythians represented an almost constant presence in the information regarding the inferior area of the Lower Danube and the North-Pontic area, starting at the end of the 6th Century B.C., until the 2nd Century B.C., sometimes even later. Literary sources not sufficiently accurate to establish the degree in which the unquestionable presence of the Scythians at the Lower Danube is the consequence of the migrations that took place in several stages, somehow distinct one from another, or is the result of infiltrations of Scythians populations, or, in certain time periods, only of strong influences.
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MIHAI IRIMIA
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