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SATRAE

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 230 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SATRAE , in ancient geography, a Thracian
people
 , inhabiting
part
  of
Mount
  Pangaeus between the rivers Nestus (Mesta) and Strymon (Struma). According to
Herodotus
 , they were independent in his time, and had never been conquered within the memory of man. They dwelt on lofty mountains covered with forests and snow, and on the highest of these was an oracle of Dionysus, whose utterances were delivered by a priestess. They were the
chief
  workers of the gold and silver mines in the
district
 .
Herodotus
  is the only ancient writer who mentions the Satrae, and Tomaschek regards the name not as that of a
people
  but of the warlike
nobility
  among the Thracian Dii and Bessi. J. E. Harrison and others identify them with the Satyri (
Satyrs
 ), the attendants and companions of Dionysus in his
revels
 , and also with the Centaurs. The name Satrokentae, a Thracian tribe according to Hecataeus (quoted in Stephanus of Byzantium), seems to support the second identification.
See Herodotus vii. 110-112; J. E. Harrison, Prolegomena to Greek Religion (1903), p. 379 ; W. Tomascheck, Die
alien
  Thraker (1893).


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