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Ariapeithes

5th century BCE · 5th century BCE

Ariapeithes was a king of the Scythians in the first half of the 5th century BCE, known from Herodotus. He married a daughter of the Odrysian king Teres, and a Greek woman from Istros who bore his son Scyles, who succeeded him. Herodotus says that he was treacherously killed by Spargapeithes, king of the Agathyrsi.

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