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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SATRAE , in See also:

ancient See also:geography, a Thracian See also:people, inhabiting See also:part of See also:Mount Pangaeus between the See also:rivers Nestus (Mesta) and Strymon (Struma). According to See also:Herodotus, they were See also:independent in his See also:time, and had never been conquered within the memory of See also:man. They dwelt on lofty mountains covered with forests and See also:snow, and on the highest of these was an See also:oracle of See also:Dionysus, whose utterances were delivered by a priestess. They were the See also:chief workers of the See also:gold and See also:silver mines in the See also:district. Herodotus is the only ancient writer who mentions the Satrae, and Tomaschek regards the name not as that of a people but of the warlike See also:nobility among the Thracian Dii and Bessi. J. E. See also:Harrison and others identify them with the Satyri (See also:Satyrs), the attendants and companions of Dionysus in his See also:revels, and also with the See also:Centaurs. The name Satrokentae, a Thracian tribe according to Hecataeus (quoted in Stephanus of See also:Byzantium), seems to support the second See also:identification. See Herodotus vii. 110-112; J. E.

Harrison, Prolegomena to See also:

Greek See also:Religion (1903), p. 379 ; W. Tomascheck, See also:Die See also:alien Thraker (1893).

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