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Thracians

Nomenclature

Greek Name: Θρηίκων

Latin Name:

Toponyms:

Cultural Notes

second biggest nation, after India,made up of many tribes including the Getae, Trausi, and those who dwell above the Crestonaeans. Sell their children for export, allow maidens to have intercourse with whoever they wish, buy their wives, tattoo those born of noble birth, honor the idler and those who live by war and robbery and scorn those who till the soil. When a wealthy Thracian dies, the body is laid out for 3 days, while others lament and kill victims and feast, then the body is burned or buried, and contests of combat are performed. 

Geographical Notes

 

Citations in Herodotos

1.168 2.103 3.90 4.74 4.80 4.93-95 4.104 4.118 5.3-4 5.6 5.10 5.126 7.20 7.75 7.111 7.115 7.185 8.115 9.32 9.89

Key Passages in English Translation

 

English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Retreived from <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu>

Key Passages in Greek

 

Other Testimonia

 

Other Commentary


Perseus Encyclopedia:

W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotos:

Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
 

Disambiguation

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