The Tauric custom of human sacrifice inspired the Greek legends of Iphigeneia and Orestes, recounted in Iphigeneia in Tauris by the playwright Euripides. The Greeks identified the Tauric goddess with Artemis Tauropolos or with Iphigeneia, daughter of Agamemnon. N (1982) mention that the Tauri tribes are a people of Turkish origins.
However, Herodotus states that the Tauri tribes were geographically inhabited by the Scythians, but they are not Scythians. In Geographica, Strabo refers to the Tauri as a Scythian tribe. He makes a point of them living in Scythia geographically without themselves being Scythians. They became famous for their worship of a virgin goddess, to whom they sacrificed shipwrecked travellers and waylaid Greeks. In his Histories, Herodotus describes the Tauri as living "by plundering and war". Later the Taurians were subsumed by the Alans and Goths, and existed till the 4th century. As a result of Roman occupations, Taurians were romanized in the first century AD. The Taurians underwent the rule of the Pontic Kingdom in the 2nd century BC. Taurians intermixed with the Scythians starting from the end of 3rd century BC, and were mentioned as Tauroscythians and Scythotaurians in the works of ancient Greek writers.
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