identified with the latter. The Issedones may also correspond to the Saka Tasmola culture of Central Asia. The Issedones were known to Greeks as early as...

Hyperboreans in a poem (now lost) called Arimaspea about a journey to the Issedones, who are estimated to have lived in the Kazakh Steppe. Beyond these lived...

may have a core in fact: "the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspoi, and the Scythians by the Issedones" (iv.13.1). The "sp" in the name...

collectively "Issedones" by Herodotus." He also states that the "Issedon Scythia and the Issedon Serica took their names from the Issedones." Yu believes...

culture was replaced by the Korgantas culture. They may correspond to the Issedones of ancient Greek sources. Everything known about the Tasmola culture originates...

century BC, had written a hexameter poem (now lost) about a journey to the Issedones of the far north. Aristeas reported that beyond them lived the one-eyed...

the Scythians from eastern Central Asia, either the Massagetae or the Issedones, migrated westwards, forcing the early Scythians to the west across the...

Antiquity Iranian peoples; Cimmerians(?) Wusun(?) Parthians Parni Saka Issedones(?) Massagetae Scythians Sarmatians Sigynnae Yuezhi(?) Hephthalites(?)...

Geography as Issedones (also Issedoni, Issedoi or Essedoni). Their exact location of their country in Central Asia is unknown. The Issedones are "placed...

Herodotus said that the Hyperboreans lived beyond the Massagetae and Issedones. Since these are both Central Asian peoples, one could speculate that...