Except for the Hyperboreoi, all these nations (and first the Arimaspoi) are always at war with their neighbors the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspoi, and the Skythians (Scythians) by the Issedones." Arimaspian fighting Griffin, Athenian red-figure calyx krater C5th B.C., British Museum This Aristeas, possessed by Phoibos (Phoebus), visited the Issedones beyond these (he said) live the one-eyed Arimaspoi (Arimaspians), beyond whom are the Grypes (Griffins) that guard gold, and beyond these again the Hyperboreoi (Hyperboreans), whose territory reaches to the sea. "There is also a story related in a poem by Aristeas son of Kaüstrobios, a man of Prokonnesos. The most outlying lands, though, as they enclose and wholly surround all the rest of the world, are likely to have those things which we think the finest and the rarest." In this matter again I cannot say with assurance how the gold is produced, but it is said that one-eyed men called Arimaspoi (Arimaspians) steal it from Grypes (Griffins). "But in the north of Europe there is by far the most gold. Beware of the sharp-beaked hounds of Zeus that do not bark, the Grypes (Griffins), and the one-eyed ( monôpoi) Arimaspoi (Arimaspians), mounted on horses, who dwell about the flood of Plouton's (Pluton's) stream that flows with gold. " ‘But now listen to another and a fearsome spectacle. They warred constantly with the gold-guarding Grypes (Griffins) of the mountains-winged beasts with the heads of eagles and the bodies of lions.Īccording to Herodotos their name was derived from the Skythian words arima "one" and spou "eye".ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES THE ARIMPASPIAN TRIBEĪeschylus, Prometheus Bound 802 ff. THE ARIMASPOI (Arimaspians) were a tribe of one-eyed men who lived at the foot of the Rhipaion (Rhipaean) Mountains in northern Skythia (probably the Carpathians).
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One-Eyed (Scythian) Arimaspian fighting Griffin, Athenian red-figure kylix C4th B.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston