Massagetæ

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• MASSAGETÆ —    a Scythian people on the NE. of the Caspian Sea, who used to kill and eat the aged among them, in an expedition against whom, it is said, Cyrus the Great lost his life …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Histories (Herodotus) — Infobox Book name = Histories translator = image caption = author = Herodotus country = Greece language = Ancient Greek genre = History publisher = Various release date = c.440 BCE isbn = n/a The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is… …   Wikipedia

• Tomyris — (Hellenic form from the original Iranian name Tahm Rayiš) [For the etymology see: F. Altheim und R. Stiehl, Geschichte Mittelasiens im Altertum (Berlin, I970).pp. 127 8] (Persian: تهم‌رییش) (reigned c. 530 BC) was a queen of the Massagetae, an… …   Wikipedia