Macedonia and Scythia – History Long of Ten Years

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• scythians
• macedonians
• alexander great
• zopirion
• philipp ii
• ateas