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AMYRGIANS (Ἀμύργιοι, οἱ)

CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Alternative name for the Scythian SACAE. Herodotus comments that although a group in XERXES’ invasion force were actually “Amyrgian Scythians,” the Persians called them Sacae, as they do all SCYTHIANS (7.64.2). Many scholars (e.g., Bryce 2012, 608; contra Narain 1987) identify the Amyrgians with the Sakā haumavargā attested in Old Persian INSCRIPTIONS (e.g., A?P §14). Their precise location is unknown but would presumably be in Central Asia; Herodotus lists them as fighting together with the BACTRIANS, commanded by HYSTASPES SON OF DARIUS. Hellanicus called Amyrgion “a plain of the Sacae” (BNJ 4 F65), and CTESIAS recounts a king of the Sacae named Amorges at the time of CYRUS (II) (FGrHist 688 F9.7–8).