ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the episodes of Anacharsis and Skyles in the fourth book of the Histories (4. 76. 1- 80. 5) in order to demonstrate how Herodotus culturally translates the practices and customs of the Scythian people. Our hypothesis is that Herodotus, in order to make comprehensible the identity characteristics of the Scythians, makes a pervasive use of symbolic structures known to the Greeks, particularly originating from tragedy and myth. Therefore, these structures must be understood in Herodotus as devices of translation and representation of Scythian identity.
