Ariapeithes

Ariapeithes (Scythian: [Ariyapaiϑah] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 9) (help);^[1][2][3][4] Ancient Greek: Αριαπειθης, romanized: Ariapeithēs) was a king of the Scythians in the early 5th century BCE.^[5]

Ariapeithes's name originates from the Scythian name [*Ariyapaiϑah] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 10) (help), and is composed of the terms *Ariya-, meaning "Aryan" and "Iranian," and [*paiϑah-] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 5) (help), meaning "decoration" and "adornment."^[1][2][3][4]

[Ariyapaiϑah] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 9) (help) had three wives, each of whom bore him one son:^[6]

• an unnamed Greek woman from Istria, who became the mother of Skula
• an unnamed daughter of the Thracian king Tērēs I, who became the mother of Uxtamazatā
• a Scythian woman named Hupāyā (Ancient Greek: Οποιη, romanized: Opoiē; Latin: Opoea), who became the mother of Varika (Ancient Greek: Ορικος, romanized: Orikos; Latin: Oricus)

[Ariyapaiϑah] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 9) (help) was treacherously killed by [[Spargapeithes (Agathyrsian king)|[Spargapaiϑah] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 10) (help)]], the king of the Agathyrsi,^[7] after which Skula became the king of the Scythians, and took his stepmother Hupāyā as one of his wives.^[6]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Ariapeithes". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 284.