Continuing Mis-Identification of the Altai Culture

[Sean Manning]

Also, I noticed something about the eastern Scythians at Gaugamela. In Rufus' version of the King's order of battle (4.11.3-16), there are no Scythians on the Persian left, but there are Massagetae who are missing in Arrian. And Herodotus tells us that some say the Massagetae are a Scythian people (1.201) and that they live opposite the Issedones beyond the Araxes (a few chapters later). So it looks like some Greeks called this contingent Scythians, and others called them Massagetae.