Ariapeithes
Ariapeithes was a king of the Scythians in the early 5th century BCE, and the father of Scyles.
Ariapeithes had three wives, each of whom bore him one son: an unnamed Greek woman from Istria, an unnamed Thracian woman who was the daughter of the king Teres, and a Scythian woman named Opoea.
Ariapeithes was treacherously killed by Spargapeithes, the king of the Agathyrsi, after which Scyles became the king of the Scythians, and took his stepmother Opoea as one of his wives.
Ariapeithes was a contemporary of the historian Herodotus, for he tells us that he had from Tinines, the guardian of Ariapeithes, an account of the family of the Scythian philosopher Anacharsis.
