Iphigenia in Tauris, modern-day Crimea

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Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: Iphigeneia en Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. Although Wikipedia states that 'there...

Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Why the Father of History made the journey

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Academician B. Rybakov in his 1979 book ‘Scythia of Herodotus’: “After half a century of destructive Greco-Persian wars, during which the many thousands of armies...

Cromlech/ Stone Circle inside Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan

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A cromlech is a megalithic circle made of large stones arranged vertically, often around a tomb or place of worship. (Stonehenge is the most famous example...

Ukraine’s Snake (Zmiiny) Island Is Where Achilles Supposedly Went Mad and Wiped Out the...

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At last world media start seeing that some of the Greek myths actually take place in the area of present-day Ukraine. "The most striking...

Dnieper River in the 5th century B.C. Description by Herodotus

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The fourth river is the Borysthenes, which is the largest after the Ister , and in our opinion the most productive, not only of...

Chumaks, the Ox-Cart Drivers: Ukrainians named the Milky Way Galaxy after them – the...

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"We met frequent caravans of the Malo-Russians , who differ altogether from the inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their features are those of...

Arsacid Dynasty: Aryan Saka/Scythians?

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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "since the late 20th century, a growing number of scholars have rejected both the Aryan invasion hypothesis and the use...

Patroclus’ Funeral Rites in The Iliad: Similarities with Funeral Rites of Kyiv Rus

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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is considered one of the most prominent English poets. Pope was fascinated by Homer since childhood and by 1720, he completed...

Scythian Goddess Argimpasa [Aphrodite Ourania] Pole-Top

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Scythian bronze Pole-top: a Scythian goddess, 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. Scholars like M. Rostovtzeff thought that the goddess was Argimpasa: "......

Old Scythia of Herodotus. Where was it? How old could it be?

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"Old Scythia starts from the Ister and continues, facing the south and south wind, up to the city called Kerkinitis. From there, extending...