АНТИЧНИТЕ ИЗВОРИ ЗА СОЦИАЛНИТЕ КАТЕГОРИИ Tarabosteis, Pilleati/Πιλοφόροι и Capillati/Κoμῆται/Comеtаi (Comatаi)
ANCIENT SOURCES ON THE SOCIAL CATEGORIES Tarabosteis, Pilleati/ Πιλοφόροι and Capillati/Κoμῆται/Comеtаi (Comatаi)

Summary/Abstract: There is a prevalent opinion in Bulgarian historiography (see, e.g., Йорданов 1984: 72-123; Попов, Д. 1989) that the two-component structure characteristic of the Thracians, built on the antagonism between the aristocracy and the community population, was preserved during the first millennium BC as well (Фол 1997: 55). The evidence by the ancient authors on the social categories of the Tarabosteis, Pilleati/ πιλοφόροι and Capillati/Κoμῆται/Comеtаi/Comatаi allow reconsidering the issue of the differentiation and the hierarchy in the Northern Thracian society. The issue invariably concerns the brief reign of the Getic ruler Burebista and the reform activities effected by him and by the priest Dekaineos. The processes of development and regulation in the socio-political and economic spheres, which crystallised in Northern Thrace around the mid-1st century BC, became manifested in Decebalus’ state.

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