Arimaspi

As Arimaspen a one-eyed people is referred to in the north of Issedonen in some ancient Greek sources. In modern research is the fabulous reports on the Arimaspen only very limited given credence, especially since Herodotus reports do not blindly trusted.

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The lost work Arimaspea of Aristeas of Proconnesos shall have extensively reported by the Arimaspen, he also depend on the later reports. The author visited the countries of the Scythians, according to Herodotus and the Issedonen.

Aeschylus 's work for his tragedy Prometheus Bound seems used to have. He describes lands beyond the Caucasus, where the Gorgons, live creatures with only one eye and one tooth, gripping and Arimaspen. This Arimaspen are one-eyed rider, the gold mines operate (lines 790-805 ).

Herodotus ( Histories III 116; IV 13, 27, 32 ) quotes Aristeas, who reports from the Arimaspen who lived north of the Issedonen. They would supposedly born with one eye. Beyond them survived the gold Guarding Griffins. Elsewhere, he reported that some say the Arimaspen would steal the gold of the crackdown. Beyond the Arimaspen and Issedonen was the island of the Hyperboreans ( Herodotus, IV, 32). The Arimaspen had expelled the Issedonen, in turn, the Scythians, which drive the Cimmerians and thus trigger the invasion of Asia Minor and Egypt.

According to Ctesias of Cnidus, which is, however, not very reliable, survived the gripping north of India ( Indika 12, 250).

The gifts of the Hyperboreans get over the Arimaspen and Issedonen to Delphi.

Strabo (XI ) calls the Arimaspen among the peoples north of the Black Sea. John Tzetzes describes the Arimaspen as a strong warrior " the toughest of all people," good riders and herders of cattle, sheep and goats. They are one-eyed, and their hair shaggy.

Name

Herodotus ( 4.27) derives the name of the Scythian arima words "one" and spu "eye" from. According to Karl Johann Heinrich Neumann, the name might come from the Arimaspen Mongolian, meaning " mountain people ". Wilhelm Tomaschek kept the word of Iranian and refers to the proper names Arimaspo, which means supposedly " owner of wild horses ," aspa iranian, " horse " (compare Hystaspes ) and the Avestan airima, " desert " and the Scythian ASPU, "horse". Laufer gave the name also for Mongolian (see Mongolian äräm DÆK thereafter, one-eyed ). Phillips also attracts a mixed formation from a Turkish word for the eye and the Iranian word for horse into consideration what would make the Arimaspen to one-eyed horsemen.

Interpretation

The Armiaspen were associated with Sabazios. Access, however, were associated with Apollo. Aeschylus calls against " dogs of Zeus that do not bark ."

In modern times, there have been numerous speculations about the ethnic allocation of Arimaspen. Bishop Thomas Percy wanted to see in them the ancestors of the cloth and Finns. Johann Gottlieb Radlof saw in them Finnish miners, one eye was actually a miner's lamp. W. Tomaschek held the Arimaspen for the ancestors of the Hsiung Nu. Phillips holds for Mongols. Some identify the Arimaspen with today Cheremises on the middle Volga. Jeannine Davis - Kimball locates the Arimaspen in Kazakhstan. Mark E. Hall sees it as part of the Sakas. Bernschtam settled the Arimasper in the steppe north of Lake Baikal.

Representation

Depictions of the battles of the Arimaspen with the Griffins were popular in Greek and Roman art. The Mirror of Kelermes (around 570 BC) depicts the struggle of two men against a crackdown. They are often interpreted as Arimaspen.

As the first known depiction identify Hemp et al. an agate scarab from the Orientalizing period, the breastplate of Trajan as Britannicus Lateran is decorated with images of Arimaspen ranging the griffin potion that hovers about Sol in the Sun Chariot. Schaeffer holds the Cupids in a battle between cupids and griffins on a scrap piece of fabric from Noin Ula Hellenistic for the representation of Arimaspen. In female fighters is unclear whether or Arimaspinnen Amazons are shown. Hemp et al. keep the fighters on the Ara Pacis of Augustus for Arimaspinnen because the Amazons would have been portrayed as allies of the Trojans, the mythical ancestor of Augustus, not as enemies.