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AGATHYRSI

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 371 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGATHYRSI , a people of Thracian origin, who in the earliest historical times occupied the plain of the Marls (Maros), in the region now known as Transylvania. Thyrsi is supposed to be a Scythian form of T pavoot (Trausi), a Thracian tribe mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium. They are described by
Herodotus
  (iv. 104) as of luxurious habits, wearing gold ornaments (the
district
  is still auriferous) and having wives in common. They tattooed their bodies (picti, Aeneid iv. 136), degrees of rank being indicated by the manner in which this was done, and coloured their
hair
  dark blue. Like the Gallic Druids, they recited their
laws
  in a kind of sing-song to prevent their being forgotten, a practice still in existence in the days of
Aristotle
  (Problemata, xix. 28). Valerius Flaccus (Argonautica, vi. 135) calls them Thyrsagetae, probably in reference to their celebration of orgiastic
rites
  in honour of some divinity akin to the Thracian Dionysus. In later times the Agathyrsi were driven farther north, and their name was unknown to the Romans in their
original
 
home
 .
See Ammianus
Marcellinus
  xxxi. 2. 17; Pliny, Nat. Hist. iv. 1.2 [26]. 88;
Pomponius
  Mela ii. I. to; W. Tomaschek, " Die alten Thraker," in Sitzungsber. der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der kaiserl. Akad. der Wiss. exxviii. (Vienna, 1893).


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