Taurians

Taurians Taurians, on border of Scythia sacrifice castaways to a virgin

• whom they call Iphigenia: Paus. 1.43.1
• Iphigenia flees from the Taurians with image of Artemis: Paus. 1.33.1
• wooden image of Tauropolus in the land of the, carried off by Orestes: Apollod. E.6.25, Apollod. E.6.27
• a Scythian people, in the Tauric Chersonese W. of the Palus Maeotis, their country described: Hdt. 4.99-101
• their part in the campaign against Darius: Hdt. 4.102-119
• part of the Scythians: Apollod. E.6.25