Targitaos

In Scythian mythology, Targitaos (Ancient Greek: Ταργιτάος, from Scythian *Dargatavah "whose might is far-reaching") was the first king of the Scythians.^[1] He was the son of Papaios and Borysthenis, daughter of Borysthenes, god of the Dnieper River in Scythia (modern Ukraine).^[2][3][4][5] He had three sons: Lipoxais, Arpoxais, and Kolaxais, the youngest.^[6]

References

1. Herodotus, Histories 4.7.1
2. Braund, David; Kryzhitskiy, S.D., eds. (2007). Classical Olbia and the Scythian world : from the sixth century BC to the second century AD (1. publ. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 48. ISBN 9780197264041.
3. Herodotus, Histories 4.5.1
4. Kokorina, Y. G., Vagabov, M. M., & Lelina, H. I. (2021). Historiography of Scythian migration in the mirror of information technologies. Linguistics and Culture Review, 5(S4), 573-582. https://doi.org/10.21744/lingcure.v5nS4.1679 "...parents of this Targitai ... were Zeus and the daughter of the river Borysthenes” (Herodotus, IV, 5)"
5. Evgenij N. Chernykh, "Nomadic Cultures in the Mega-Structure of the Eurasian World", in: Academic Studies Press 2017, Chapter 18. The Scythian World through the Eyes of Herodotus. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618115539-022 "...Herodotus describes how these nomadic warriors, descended from the legendary Targitai,..."
6. Herodotus, Histories 4.5.2

• Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. ISBN 0-674-99133-8. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.