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Origins of the Scythian Archers in Athens.
Identity of the Scythian Archers.
The Function of the Scythian Archers.
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Elizabeth Baughman, edition of January 30, 2003
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Athens.
Scythia.
In Athens the so-called “Scythian Archers,” who may or may not have been from Scythia and who may or may not have been archers, served as a police force, keeping order in public gatherings (the Council, the Assembly, and the Agora) and perhaps authorized to use force against citizens under certain circumstances.
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Elizabeth Baughman, “Scythian Archers,” in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of January 30, 2003. Contact: cwb@stoa.org.
© January 30, 2003, Elizabeth Baughman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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