List of Scythian kings

List of Scythian rulers and kings
The rule of the Scythians was apparently usually inherited from father to youngest son ( ultimogenitur ). The following list is incomplete, especially in the early days war leaders may have been confused with kings in the written sources:

• Founding hero Targitaos , son of Zeus and a river goddess (mythical)
• Lipoxais , Arpoxais , and Kolaxes , sons of Leipoxais, ancestors of the various Scythian sub-tribes (mythical).
• Išpakai in the reign of Assurhaddon (680–669)
• Bartatua , perhaps Ishpakai's successor, in the reign of Assurhaddon
• around 616 Madyes , son of Partatua
• around 514 Idanthyrsos
• Ariantas , attempted an arrowhead census .
• Saulios , 6th century
• Ariapeithes
• Skyles (before 424), son of Ariapeithes and a Greek woman from Istros . Deposed because he had violated traditional customs, Sitalkes fled to the Thracian king .
• Oktamasades , brother of Skyles
• Atheas (? -339)
• Agaros , ally of Satyros from the Bosporan Empire.
• Kanita , 3rd century
• Saitaphernes from the tribe of the Sai , turn 3./2. Century
• Skiluros , second half of the 2nd century, founded Neapolis
• Palakos , end of the 2nd century
• Pharnakes II
• Saumakos , a former slave of the Pairisades , ruler of the Bosporan Empire .

literature

• BN Grakow: The Scythians. Berlin 1978. (Russian original: Скифы, Moscow 1971.)