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Scythia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
Scythia. Name for an ancient region north of the...A homeland without definable borders, Scythia stretched from the Danube to the Caucasus...language, was thought to be king here. Scythia was also thought to be the homeland of...
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Míl Espáine
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...descriptions of his early career place him in Scythia , a region the subject of much fanciful...service initially so pleases the king of Scythia that Míl is made army commander...murders Seang's father and flees from Scythia in sixty ships to Egypt. There he serves...
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Barbarism and Civilization
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...river always rises when others fall; in Scythia, the sky rains in summer but not in winter...Egypt, the Nile unites the land while in Scythia, the Danube divides the land into many...in Egypt there is one king while in Scythia there are many; in Egypt, they believe...
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...settled in Thurii. Apart from Greece and Italy, he visited Scythia, the Bosporus, Egypt, the Euphrates valley, and Babylon...which came under Persian rule, especially Egypt (book 2) and Scythia (book 4). The second half of his work is a more continuous...
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Pomponius Mela
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...to the Straits of Gibraltar (included in this survey were Scythia, Thrace. Macedonia, Greece, Italy, southern Gaul, and...coasts of Europe (Gaul, Germany, and Sarmatia) and Asia (Scythia), turning south along the farthest coast of Asia and then...
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Milesians
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...in the Lebor Gabála , the Milesians originate in Scythia , a region the subject of much fantasy in early Irish tradition...and so wandered to many lands, first to their homeland in Scythia, later for seven years in the Caspian Sea, and eventually...
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Lebor Gabála Érenn
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...5200 BC, while later authorities opted for 4004 BC. The Scoti (i.e. Goidels, Irish) are assumed to have originated in Scythia but to have taken their name from Scota (1) or Scotia, the daughter of a Pharaoh. While in Egypt the Scoti know Moses and...
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Amazon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Amazon a member of a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia or elsewhere on the edge of the known world; in extended usage, a very tall and strong or athletic woman. The Amazons, who...
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Anacharsis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...found that in Greece the Spartans were the only people with whom it was possible to hold a sensible conversation), returned to Scythia, and was killed by his own people, perhaps for trying to introduce the worship of the magna mater .
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Scotti
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...Scottish Gaelic. Writers of the pseudo-history Lebor Gabála [Book of Invasions] claimed that the Scotti were descended from Queen Scota of Egypt. Elsewhere in the same document the Scotti are confused with the Scythi of Scythia .
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