Idanthyrsus
Sign in to saveIdanthyrsus (; ) is the name of a Scythian king who lived in the 6th century BCE, when he faced an invasion of his country by the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Idanthyrsus
- Royalty.succession
- King of the Scythians
- Royalty.father
- Saulius
- Royalty.religion
- Scythian religion
- Royalty.predecessor
- Saulius
- Royalty.successor1
- Ariapeithes (?)
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Scythian
- Royalty.dynasty
- Spargapeithes's dynasty
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Name and etymology
- Life
- Background
- Persian invasion
- Legacy
- Notes and references
- Notes
- References
- Sources
Idanthyrsus (; ) is the name of a Scythian king who lived in the 6th century BCE, when he faced an invasion of his country by the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
==Name and etymology== The name () is the Hellenized form of a Scythian name whose original form is not attested. The Scythian name has been tentatively suggested by Ferdinand Justi and Josef Markwart to have been composed of the Iranian term "finding, attaining" or . However, the Iranic sound /d/ had evolved into /δ/ in Proto-Scythian, and later evolved into /l/ in Scythian.
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