The Thracian pantheon as it reaches modern scholarship, mostly through the lens of Greek interpretation, headed in the historical record by figures such as the huntress goddess Bendis, exported to Athens and identified there with Artemis.
Facts
Attestation
Era of AttestationAttested from Thracian inscriptions and Greek accounts from the fifth century BCE, most notably the widespread Thracian Rider cult, through the Roman period until absorption into the wider Greco-Roman world. 1 Correspondences & Relations
Pantheon Members
Pantheon Of
Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source The Thracians (Hoddinott)
R. F. Hoddinott, Thames and Hudson, Ancient Peoples and Places, 1981Hoddinott's survey of the Thracian pantheon figures
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