Scythian King Ariapeithes

Children

• King Octamasades

Domains

• kingship

Relations

• father of: Bacchic King SkylesSkyles, the Bacchic king, was the son of Ariapeithes by an Istrian woman who taught him Greek.Herodotus, Histories 4.78 (primary)
• father of: King OctamasadesOctamasades, Skyles half-brother who succeeded and beheaded him, was likewise a son of Ariapeithes, by a daughter of the Thracian king Teres.Herodotus, Histories 4.80 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Herodotus, Histories 4.78 (Godley): Ariapeithes king of the Scythians, father of Skyles by an Istrian woman, slain by Spargapeithes the Agathyrsian (primary)