Iconography of Thracian Knight. Symbol and significations
Iconography of Thracian Knight. Symbol and significations

Summary/Abstract: The image and the symbol of The Thracian Knight could be found all over the Greek-Romanworld, mainly at Dacians and their successors. Thus, Kernbach mentions deities known as ThracianKnight and The Danube Knights and Mircea Eliade shows that Herodotus, some centuries later theso-called monuments of „knight heroes” flourish in The Balkan area2.The Thracian Knight shone over The Pontus Euxinus, of the cities of Histria, Callatis, Odessus.We also find him at Romula, in Dacia, where this figure is not exactly associated to Cybele. AtConstantza, the knight-god with his spear is represented with wings, like a sort of genius of death,resulting that the figure of the Thracian hero had funeral competences. In the same context, Stela de laSvistov, as a gtribute to deceased Heroni offers us the picture of a god facing a sort of huge dragoonthat has nothing to do with the saviour snake, solidary to The Life Tree, he rather represents death.

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