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CAROLYN DEWALD

Bard College

Herodotus describes the Argippaeans (4.23) as neighbors of the SCYTHIANS who live in the stony foothills of a mountain range (the Urals? Altai? Karatau?). All Argippaeans are bald, with snub noses and large chins, and speak their own language but DRESS like Scythians. They live in something like yurts in winter, under TREES in summer, have no weapons, settle others’ disputes, and are considered hiroi, holy; they protect fugitives. They live off a tree called ponticon (probably the prunus padus), extracting from it a liquid called aschy, which they eat and also combine with milk, similar to a drink of Turkic peoples today living in the region of the Urals. The Argippaeans are trading‐partners with the Greeks from BORYSTHENES and the Scythians, and from them comes information, some of which Herodotus doubts, about other less well‐known and exotic peoples beyond them (4.24–25).

SEE ALSO: Ethnography; Food; Source Citations; Trade