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grbs-1161	Petrides, Antonis K.	Georgios Pachymeres between Ethnography and Narrative: Συγγραφικαὶ Ἱστορίαι 3.3–5	2009	24	.pdf	application/pdf	8918	391	61	The most useful insight to bear in ANTONIS K. PETRIDES 317 mind, however, is that for Pachymeres geography, hence eth- nography as well, was political.43 Pachymeres had an eye for ethnographic detail, but also, certainly, the uncanny ability to weave such observation into an intricate and sophisticated fabric of internal and international complexities. 300 BETWEEN ETHNOGRAPHY AND NARRATIVE by Pachymeres (especially their prowess in war and their pro- verbial virtuosity in horse riding and archery), as well as the unforgiving harshness of their land, are also traditional: see, e.g., the Σκυθικοὶ λόγοι in Herodotus (Book 4) and the Hip- pocratic De aëre aquis et locis 18–22, etc.10 Pachymeres, though, is more forthcoming on the Scythians’ ἦθος than their physical appearance: one major physical detail with bearing on char- acter, which prevails in accounts of Scythian peoples, but is curiously omitted in Pachymeres, is τὸ πυρρόν (Hippoc.	cache/grbs-1161.pdf	txt/grbs-1161.txt