Scythians are what historians call the Iranian-speaking Aryan nomads who, during the first millennium BC, roamed with their herds across the vast plain between the Danube and the Great Wall of China. In my book, I focus on the Scythians who lived in the steppe on the northern shores of the Black Sea. My main source is "Melpomene," the fourth book of Herodotus's Histories. (. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]