people
the Sarmatians
A northern people who cross the frozen Black Sea on foot, an image of the icy Scythian world Hercules reached.
Reading notes
- Hercules on Oeta §104 the cold Sarmatian
The Sarmatians, a nomadic warrior people of the steppes north of the Black Sea.
- Natural Questions §6.7.1 Sarmatian
The Sarmatians, nomadic horse-peoples beyond the Danube, a byword for northern barbarian onslaught.
- Phaedra §54 Sarmatian
The Sarmatians, nomads of the plains north of the Black Sea.
- Thyestes §336 Sarmatians
Nomadic horse-peoples of the steppes north of the Black Sea.