Burebista, Unifier-King of the Getae and Dacians

Dacian · mortal · Dacian kingdom, c. 82/61 45/44 BCE · mortal

Included as the Dacian sacred-kingship figure binding the Zalmoxis cult to historical rulership (prompt foregrounds the Dacian set). Classified 'mortal': a historical king (not deified in the sources, unlike his priest Decaeneus), but central to Geto-Dacian religion through the priest-king nexus and the meat/wine-abstention discipline Strabo traces to Zalmoxis. Native name transmitted in Greek inscriptions and Strabo; no Dacian-script form survives. vitalStatus 'deceased'.

Domains

Powers

Epithets

Relations

Sources

Open in the interactive app →