Scythian archers
The Scythian archers were a hypothesized police force of 5th- and early 4th-century BC Athens that is recorded in some Greek artworks and literature. The force is said to have consisted of 300 armed Scythians (a nomadic Iranic people living in the Eurasian Steppe) who were public slaves in Athens. They acted for a group of eleven elected Athenian magistrates "who were responsible for arrests and executions and for some aspects of public order" in the city. One of Aristophanes's comedies has a Scythian archer as a character, and he speaks broken Greek with an accent.
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Scythian archers
The Scythian archers were a hypothesized police force of 5th- and early 4th-century BC Athens that is recorded in some Greek artworks and literature. The force is said to have consisted of 300 armed Scythians (a nomadic Iranic people living in the Eurasian Steppe) who were public slaves in Athens. They acted for a group of eleven elected Athenian magistrates "who were responsible for arrests and executions and for some aspects of public order" in the city. One of Aristophanes's comedies has a Scythian archer as a character, and he speaks broken Greek with an accent.
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An Attic red-figure vase-painting of a Scythian archer by Epiktetos, 520–500 BC
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Tents or wooden barracks in the Agora and later on the Areopagus
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The Eleven
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Speusinioi
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Speusinos
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allegedly establishing the force
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