Foregrounded figure of the batch. DEMIGOD-vs-DEITY TENSION: Herodotus reports both that Greeks of the Pontic colonies told a euhemerizing tale (Zalmoxis a freed slave of Pythagoras who taught immortality and feigned death in an underground chamber) AND that the Getae regard him as a native god, and he explicitly refuses to adjudicate ('let it go... whether there was a man Salmoxis or this is some native daimon of the Getae', 4.96). Strabo's version has him become priest then deified man; Plato (Charmides) calls him 'king and god' of the Thracians whose physicians make men immortal. Classified here as 'deity' per the Getic theological reception while the heroized-mortal/culture-hero reading is preserved in notes per the prompt's required tension. Worshipped by both Getae (Thracian) and Dacians; the prompt foregrounds him for the Dacian set as well.