place
Scythia
The vast steppe north and east of the Black Sea, home to nomadic peoples the Greeks called Scythians.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §7 Scythia
The steppe lands north of the Black Sea; Seneca notes Greek colonies planted even on these wild Pontic shores.
- On Anger §2.15 Scythians
The nomadic peoples north of the Black Sea, cited with the Germans as free and irascible by untempered nature.
- Hercules on Oeta §1 Scythian Bear
Scythia, the cold lands of the far north under the constellation of the Bear, reached by Hercules' fame.
- Hercules on Oeta §104 a Scythian reed
Scythia, land of mounted archers; its arrows could not pierce Hercules.
- Natural Questions §4.5.2 Scythia
The steppe lands north of the Black Sea, proverbially frozen; Seneca cites them as the source of cold spring blasts.