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Sergey A. Yatsenko

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In: Brill's Companion to Ancient Women and War in the Mediterranean World

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Pages:: 64–80

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004749368_005

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Drawing on materials from barrow necropolises, this chapter analyzes the material evidence for female warriors of the Scythians-Scolotes and their neighbors in the northern Black Sea region from the fifth to the third century BCE. It shows that the fourth and early third centuries BCE, while being a period of political disintegration of Scythia and gradual loss of Scythian influence, were also the period of the closest connections between the Scythians and the neighboring Greek apoikai, the flowering of trade, the appearance of the first Scythian cities in the lower reaches of the Dnjepr and Don rivers, and Greco-Scythian art. Against this background, the chapter explores the historical background of the image of Scythian warrior women.

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Brill's Companion to Ancient Women and War in the Mediterranean World

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies, Volume: 11 and Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Volume: 11

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004749368

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 26 Nov 2025

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- Classical Studies
  - Ancient History
  - Archaeology, Art & Architecture
- History
  - History of Warfare

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Part 1 Introduction

Part 2 Goddesses, Myth, Amazons, and War

Part 3 Royal Women and War

Part 4 Women and Armies in War

Part 5 Representations of Women in Texts about War

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