Herodotus' Histories

Opoia

Family: Scythian · Role: wife of Ariapeithes · First appears: Book 4 · §78–84

Book 4 · §78–84

  • child: Oricos “this Opoia was a native Scythian and from her was born Oricos to Ariapeithes.”
  • married with Skyles “and he took not only that but also the wife of his father, whose name was Opoia:”
  • with Skyles (Opoia was Skyles's stepmother; the passage says he took his father's wife, not that he married her.) “and he took not only that but also the wife of his father, whose name was Opoia:”

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