Open AccessMacedonia and Scythia – History Long of Ten Years
Author(s) -
I.V. BRUYAKO
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
antičnyj mir i arheologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0320-961X
DOI - 10.18500/0320-961x-2017-18-317-329
Subject(s) - barbarian , macedonian , ancient history , epoch (astronomy) , history , character (mathematics) , geography , stars , physics , geometry , mathematics , astronomy
Interrelations between Macedonia and Scythia in the 30th years of IV cent.BC are discussed here. The decade of these contacts may be divide into 3 phases. Events of each of this phase had a military character. First of them included the Scythian-Macedonian war 339 BC. Following was the North campaign of Alexander Great against barbarian tribes had been living in the Bas-Danube (335 BC). Finally, the military expedition of Zopirion (331/330 BC) completed this very lively and dynamic epoch, that was a one single time in the history of direct relations between two peoples of antiquity.