Ariapeithes

Ariapeithes (Scythian: Aryapaiθa, Ancient Greek: Ἀριαπείθης) was a king of the Scythians in the early 5th century BC, and the father of Scyles.[1]

Ariapeithes had three wives, each of whom bore him one son: an unnamed Greek woman from Istria (Scyles's mother), an unnamed Thracian woman who was the daughter of the king Teres (mother of Octamasadas), and a Scythian woman named Opoea (mother of Oricus).[2]

Ariapeithes was treacherously killed by Spargapeithes, the king of the Agathyrsi, after which Scyles became the king of the Scythians, and took his stepmother Opoea as one of his wives.[2]

Ariapeithes was a contemporary of the historian Herodotus, for he tells us that he had from Tinines, the guardian of Ariapeithes, an account of the family of the Scythian philosopher Anacharsis.[3]

References
  1. Peter, Ulrike. "Ariapeithes". Brill's New Pauly. Brill Publishers. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  2. Rolle, Renate (1989). The World of the Scythians. University of California Press. p. 123. ISBN 9780520068643. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  3. Herodotus, Histories 4.76, 78

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Ariapeithes". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 284.

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