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The Taurians underwent the rule of the Pontic Kingdom in the 2nd century BC. As a result of Roman occupations, Taurians were romanized in the first century AD. Later the Taurians were subsumed by the Alans and Goths, and existed till the 4th century. [1] History. In his Histories, Herodotus describes the Tauri as living "by plundering and war".
In Greek mythology, Thoas (Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") was a king of the Taurians, a barbaric tribe in Crimea. He was king when Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia was taken to the land of the Taurians, and became a priestess of Artemis there. He was a character in Euripides' play Iphigenia among the Taurians.
c.113 - 88 BC. Over the course of the first thirty years of his reign, Mithradates VI Eupator of Pontus methodically captures and adds neighbouring kingdoms and territories to his own realm, including Taurica of the Tauri which is formed into the Cimmerian Bosporus kingdom), Paphlagonia, and also Cappadocia, and makes Armenia an ally.
King of Lemnos. The women of Lemnos. In the Iliad. Notes. References. External links. Thoas (king of Lemnos) This article is about the king of Lemnos saved by his daughter Hypsipyle. For the Taurian king who pursued Orestes and Iphigenia, see Thoas (king of the Taurians). For other mythical figures of this name, see Thoas (mythology).
Tauri, earliest known inhabitants of the mountainous south coast of what is now Crimea, which itself was known in ancient times as the Tauric Chersonese. The Tauri were famous in the ancient world for their virgin goddess who was identified by the Greeks with Artemis Tauropolos or with Iphigeneia.
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Apr 19, 2013 · The story involves two important variants on the legend of the House of Atreus: the transportation of Iphigenia to the Tauric Chersonese on the northern coast of the Black Sea to serve as a priestess of Artemis; and the last wanderings of Orestes, which unite him with his lost sister.
Oct 8, 2023 · The Tauri, or Tauri-Scythians (Latin: Taurus, Tauros), were a tribe who lived in the mountainous and foothill parts of Crimea in the 1st millennium BCE, between the mountains facing the Pontic Sea, between Kerkinitis (Yevpatoria) and Chersonesus (Bosporan Kingdom).
