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The Bosporan kings were the rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; the earliest known king of the Bosporus is Archaeanax , who seized control of the city c ...
The English name Cimmerians is derived from Latin Cimmerii, itself derived from the Ancient Greek Kimmerioi (Κιμμεριοι), [2] of an ultimately uncertain origin for which there have been various proposals: according to János Harmatta, it was derived from Old Iranic *Gayamira, meaning "union of clans." [3]
Antenor was variously named as the son of the Dardanian noble Aesyetes by Cleomestra [3] or of Hicetaon. [4] He was the husband of Theano, [5] daughter of Cisseus of Thrace, who bore him at least one daughter, Crino, [6] and numerous sons, including Acamas, [7] [8] Agenor, [9] [10] Antheus, [11] Archelochus, [12] [13] Coön, [14] Demoleon, [15] Eurymachus, [16] Glaucus, [17] Helicaon, [18 ...
The arrival of the Scythians and their establishment in this region in the 7th century BC [28] corresponded to a disturbance of the development of Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex, [23] which was thus replaced through a continuous process [29] over the course of c. 750 to c. 600 BC by the early Scythian culture in southern Europe, which itself nevertheless still showed links to the ...
Antenor (king), a king of the Cimmerian Bosporus; Antenor (Trojan), a figure in Greek mythology; Antenor (mythology), a list of other people with the name in Greek mythology; Antenor (writer), ancient Greek writer; Antenor of Provence (fl. c. 700), patrician of Provence; Anténor Firmin, (1850–1911), Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and ...
The Liber Historiae Francorum, written in 727 AD, asserts that after Troy's fall, two leaders called Priam and Antenor lead some 12,000 men to the river Tanais (now called the Don, in Russia) and from there they settled in Pannonia, which the author wrongly understood to adjoin the Sea of Azov. In Pannonia they constructed a city called Sicambria.
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In the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, a significant movement of the nomads of the Eurasian steppe brought the Scythians into Southwest Asia. According to Herodotus, this movement started when the Massagetae [5] or the Issedones [6] migrated westwards, forcing the Scythians to the west across the Araxes [7] and into the Caspian Steppe, [6] [5] from where they displaced the Cimmerians.