Alle radici della "Questione scitica"

The enduring presence of the Scythians in the literary traditions of the classical world and the ancient Near East was not sufficient to ensure a clear identification of their ethnic and linguistic identity. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the so-called ‘Scythian question’ emerged. Scholars debated whether the term ‘Scythians’ referred to a single people or to various populations bound together by a common way of life, and further disputed the language spoken by the Scythians. Today, the prevailing scholarly consensus holds that the Scythians were an Iranian people.