Cimmerians
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the Cimmerians
in the texts
The Histories
Nomadic people who invaded Ionia and briefly captured Sardis before being expelled by Alyattes
for the Cimmerian host which invaded Ionia before his time did not subjugate the cities, but raided and robbed them.
and it was while he was monarch of Sardis that the Cimmerians, driven from their homes by the nomad Scythians, came into Asia, and took Sardis, all but the acropolis.
and after Sadyattes came Alyattes, who waged war against Deioces ' descendant Cyaxares and the Medes, drove the Cimmerians out of Asia, took Smyrna (which was a colony from Colophon), and invaded the lands of Clazomenae.
Lucullus
A legendary people said to live without sunlight, invoked by Lucullus as a metaphor: even they had fire for light, unlike the total darkness the Academic skeptics offer.
but those whom you approve, having spread so great a darkness, have left us not even a single spark for discerning;
Protrepticus
Mythical people associated with perpetual darkness, invoked negatively.
there is no Cimmerian in the Word.
Odyssey
People living in perpetual mist and darkness at the edge of Okeanos, near the entrance to the underworld.
All day long her sails were full as she held her course over the sea, but when the sun went down and darkness was over all the earth, we got into the deep waters of the river Okeanos, where lie the dêmos and city of the Cimmerians who live enshrouded in mist and darkness which the rays of the sun never pierce neither at his rising nor as he goes down again out of the heavens, but the poor wretches …