Tauri
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Tauric nation · the Tauri · the Taurians
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
People of the Black Sea cited as practitioners of human sacrifice considered pious.
How many—as the Tauri in the Black Sea, as the king of Egypt Busiris, as the Gauls, as the Carthaginians—reckoned it both pious and most pleasing to the immortal gods to sacrifice men!
Protrepticus
People inhabiting the Taurian peninsula, notorious for sacrificing shipwrecked strangers to Artemis.
And the Tauri, the people who dwell about the Taurian peninsula, whatever strangers they capture among them — those of them who have been shipwrecked at sea — these they straightway sacrifice to the Taurian Artemis;
The Histories
The people of the Tauric peninsula, described sacrificing shipwrecked strangers and Greek captives to a goddess identified with Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia, and displaying enemies' heads as house guardians.
The Tauri live by plundering and war.
it is inhabited by the Tauric nation as far as what is called the Rough Peninsula;
The Tauri themselves say that this deity to whom they sacrifice is Agamemnon 's daughter Iphigenia.
Adversus Marcionem
A Pontic people associated in legend with human sacrifice.
nothing there has any warmth except savagery — that savagery, of course, which gave the stage its fables of the sacrifices of the Tauri, the loves of the Colchians, and the crosses of the Caucasus.