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commotion, not to mention the savage genius of the people, was their scorn and impatience, to have recruits raised amongst them, and all their stoutest men enlisted in our armies; accustomed as they were not even to obey their native kings further than their own humour, nor to aid them with forces but under captains of their own choosing, nor to fight against any enemy but their own borderers. Their discontents too were inflamed by a rumour which then ran current amongst them; that they were to be dispersed into different regions; and exterminated from their own, to be mixed with other nations. But before they took arms and began hostilities, they sent ambassadors to Sabinus, to represent "their past friendship and submission, and that the same should continue, if they were provoked by no fresh impositions: but, if like a people subdued by war, they were doomed to bondage; they had able men and steel, and souls determined upon liberty or death." The ambassadors at the same time pointed to their strongholds founded upon precipices; and boasted that they had thither conveyed their wives and parents; and threatened a war intricate, hazardous and bloody."
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victory and the truce that followed it, celebrated a sacrifice in honour of Athene Itonia. But at night while they still were intent on the ceremony, and engaged in festivities, the Thracians armed, and attacked them; they cut many of them to pieces, and took a great number prisoners. When the Boeotians afterwards charged them with a breach of the truce, the Thracians replied that the terms of the truce expressed a certain number of days, but said nothing concerning the nights. "
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Polybius, Histories, 27.12,"Cotys was a man of distinguished appearance and of Character of Cotys, king of the Odrysae, an ally of Perseus. great ability in military affairs, and besides, quite unlike a Thracian in character. For he was of sober habits, and gave evidence of a gentleness of temper and
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Herodotus THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS, Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay, IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. II, "Of the other Thracians the custom is to sell their children to be carried away out of the country; and over their maidens they do not keep watch, but allow them to have commerce with whatever men
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army. They also served in the Republican Roman and Mithridatic armies, as well as the armies of the Diadocii. They provided up to one third of the cavalry in Macedonian armies and up to a fifth of their infantry (usually as levies or allies rather than mercenaries). They later formed one of the
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against other Thracian tribes. Those allied with the Greeks were more civilized and they were usually established in settlements along the Thracian coast. The interior tribes were known as savages, retaining their barbarous habits even until the Roman period. The tribal wars also kept Thrace from
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Thracian Kings, University of Michigan,"On the death of the last Astaean king in 11 BC, the emperor Augustus conferred all Thrace to his Sapaean uncle Roimētalkēs I. In 46, on the murder of Roimētalkēs III by his wife, the kingdom of Thrace was annexed to the Roman Empire by the emperor Claudius
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The Thracians."The Thracians fought against the Boeotians by lake Copais, and were defeated; then they retreated to Helicon, and made a truce with the Boeotians for a certain number of days, to give time for agreeing the terms of peace. The Boeotians, who were confident because of their recent
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Tacitus. The Annals,"In the Consulship of Lentulus Getulicus and Caius Calvisius, the triumphal ensigns were decreed to Poppeus Sabinus for having routed some clans of Thracians, who living wildly on the high mountains, acted thence with the more outrage and contumacy. The ground of their late
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had been adopted by the Thracian cavalry. Despite the power of the Odrysians except during the reigns of Teres and Sitalkes they were still weaker than the Scythians militarily. Scale armor was adopted as well as a composite metal cuirass. The most northern Thracian tribe, the Getai, were so
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kings in 310 BC. Odrysian military strength was based on intra-tribal elite making the kingdom prone to fragmentation. Although the kingdom was wealthy, a large proportion of its income was in kind and suitable portions had to be paid to the tribal chiefs. The army was mostly fed and paid by
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was said to have been born in Thrace and was also heavily worshiped there; in contrast to the revulsion of his worship by many other Balkan city states. Homer recounts in the book of Odyssey that an embarrassed Ares retreated among his Thracian followers when his love affair with the goddess
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The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC (Hardcover) by John Boardman (Editor), I. E. S. Edwards (Editor), E. Sollberger (Editor), N. G. L. Hammond (Editor), 1992,
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plunder. Sitalces was able to raise an army supposedly 150,000 strong for his invasion of Macedonia in 429 BC but these economic and political factors (plus the onset of winter) meant that this army only held together for about six weeks and any Thracian conquests were ephemeral.
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The Peloponnesian War: A Military Study (Warfare and History) by J. F. Lazenby, 2003, page 224,"... number of strongholds, and he made himself useful fighting `the Thracians without a king' on behalf of the more Hellenized Thracian kings and their Greek neighbours (Nepos, Alc.
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similar to the Scythians that they were often confused with them. Odrysian Thracian kings made treaties and royal marriages as equals with the Scythians. The royal name Spartokos (Spartacus) is shared between some Thracian royalty and some Crimean Skythian kings.
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Plato. The Republic, "Take the quality of passion or spirit;--it would be ridiculous to imagine that this quality, when found in States, is not derived from the individuals who are supposed to possess it, e.g. the Thracians, Scythians, and in general the northern
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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare: Volume 1, Greece, The Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome by Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, and Michael Whitby, 2007, page 221, "... The Scythian cavalry wedge, adopted by the
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Plato. Laws, "Are we to follow the custom of the Scythians, and Persians, and Carthaginians, and Celts, and Iberians, and Thracians, who are all warlike nations, or that of your countrymen, for they, as you say, altogether
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The World of Tattoo: An Illustrated History by Maarten Hesselt van Dinter, 2007, page 25: "... in ancient times. The Danube area Dacians, Thracians and Illyrians all decorated themselves with status-enhancing tattoos,
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A Thracian javelinman would wield a crescent wicker shield and a couple of javelins. This troop type was to persist into the classic and Hellenistic era. Organized groups of spearmen or javelin throwers were not used.
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There was no Thracian navy but there were instances of Thracians turning to piracy. The Greek cities of the coast that paid tribute to the Thracian kings did sometimes provide the Thracian kings with ships.
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equipment and armors from different time periods, to the point of wearing armors that ceased to be used elsewhere; this is something they did even in the classic era. Later they adopted Roman armaments.
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Thracians were highly sought as mercenaries due to their ferocity in battle, but they were infamous for their love of plunder. Thracian mercenaries played an important role in the affairs between
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in his Annals describes a Roman attack against a hill fort. There were many Thracian hill forts and some were inhabited. Other fortified Thracian towns existed at places like Hellis and Kabyle.
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tribes that endured between the 5th century BC and the 3rd century BC. The Odrysian state was the first Thracian kingdom that acquired power in the region, by the unification of many
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and long swords. Thracians shunned armor and greaves and fought as light as possible, favoring mobility above all other traits and had excellent horsemen. The
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The Illyrians (The Peoples of Europe) by John Wilkes,1996, page 198,"their armor is Celtic but they are tattooed like the rest of the Illyrians and Thracians"
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Thrace had the potential to muster a huge number of troops though this rarely occurred. By tradition, Thracians honored warriors and, according to
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Thracian cavalry would wear leather armor or no armor and would be armed with javelins, a bow, or a spear. Only royal cavalry would wear armor.
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most important nationalities in the Roman army, contributing up to 20,000 troops at any one time to auxiliary units during the early empire.
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Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BC: organisation, tactics, dress and weapons by Duncan Head, Ian Heath, 1982, page 51
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Completely parsed Cicero: the first oration of Cicero against Catiline by Marcus Tullius Cicero, LeaAnn A. Osburn, Archibald A. Maclardy,
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wooden shield (or a heavier iron-rimmed and spined thureos). No Thracian infantry wore greaves until the 4th century BC. Later native and
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The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) by Z. H. Archibald, 1998,
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in a variety of ways like the adoption of certain long swords though this must not have been universal among them. The
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had adopted a Greek tactic for a night march (though night marches and attacks were a favourite Thracian tactic).
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with trickery. The Thracians struck their weapons against each other before battle and engaged in night attacks.
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This is a list of battles or conflicts that Thracians had a leading or crucial role in, usually as mercenaries.
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considers them a war-like nation, grouping them with Celts, Persians, Scythians, Iberians and Carthaginians.
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ruled Thrace after the Odrysians until its incorporation to the Roman Empire as a province. Thrace became a
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In the 4th century BC, both infantry and cavalry troops started wearing helmets (some of leather) and some
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The Thracians were a particularly fierce culture in terms of violence and conflict and so they appeared in
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writes that "they sell their children and let their daughters commerce with whatever men they please".
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Readings in Greek History: Sources and Interpretations by D. Brendan Nagle and Stanley M. Burstein,
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Thracians were regarded as warlike, ferocious, and savagely bloodthirsty. Thracians were seen as "
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Principal weapons in the 4th century BC (as well as earlier) were the spear and short knife.
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Christopher Webber, Angus McBride (2001). The Thracians, 700 BC - AD 46. Osprey Publishing.
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Scythians 700-300 B.C. (Men at Arms Series, 137) by E.V. Cernenko and Angus McBride, 1983,
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A Thracian chieftain could have access to armor and helmets. One could be equipped with a
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conquered a large swath of Thrace, absorbing the territory and its tribes into Macedon.
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spans from the 10th century BC up to the 1st century AD in the region defined by Ancient
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types started being used, the Greek type being rarer. Thracians used mixed Thracian and
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and neighboring nations and tribes, numerous wars were recorded among Thracian tribes.
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writes of them being wild, savage and impatient, disobedient even to their own kings.
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Phrygian or Thracian type helmet. Unusual having a nasal in place of the usual peak.
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mercenaries were so expensive to pay that after they missed the boat to Sicily the
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A Thracian footman (3rd century BC - 1st century BC) could wield a knife or sword,
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Thracians had contributed a number of 6,000 men (60,000 according to Herodotus) in
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campaign of 480 BC but in general resisted Persian occupation and turned against
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wrote of Cotys' sober and gentle character being unlike that of most Thracians.
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Complete Encyclopedia Of Arms & Weapons (Hardcover)by Rh Value Publishing,
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5th century BC. It became involved in wars and military conflicts against the
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Thracian tribes fought amongst each other and they allied themselves with the
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dashing out and closing their ranks according to the tactics of their country
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and Charidemos fought for the Odrysae as well. The Thracians served under
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becoming a major regional power due to the lack of a central government.
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tribes and their kingdoms in the Balkans. Apart from conflicts between
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Instances of Thracian people engaging in armed conflict occur in the
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were described as expensive mercenaries. In one instance in 413 BC,
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and only one has been found in Thrace, a bell-type cuirass) with a
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equipment. Thracians decorated their bodies with tattoos like the
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as mostly associated with its stories of strife. The god of war
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equipment. From 11 BC onwards Thracians would start resembling
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Armor, when it was available (for the nobility), was at first
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they please, but over their wives they keep very great watch"
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a steadiness of disposition worthy of a man of gentle birth".
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killing every living thing, including children and dogs, in
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sent them home. They were hired occasionally by Persians.
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was considered one of the most bloothirsty chieftains by
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worn by Thracians, mid-4th century BC and older forms
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and the Thracians may have adopted or inherited it.
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