Editing Cimmerians (section)

======In Homer's {{Transliteration|en|Odyssey}}======
The first mention of the Cimmerians in [[Ancient Greek literature|Graeco-Roman literature]] dates from the 8th century BC in [[Homer]]'s [[Odyssey|{{Transliteration|en|Odyssey}}]],{{sfn|Sulimirski|Taylor|1991|p=555}} which describes them as a people living in a city located at the entrance of [[Greek underworld|Hades]] beyond the western shore of the [[Oceanus]] river which encircles the world, in a land towards which Odysseus sailed to obtain an oracle from the soul of the seer [[Tiresias]], and which was covered with mists and clouds and therefore remained permanently deprived of sunlight although the Sun-god [[Helios]] sets there.<ref>{{unbulleted list citebundle|{{harvnb|Diakonoff|1985|p=92}}|{{harvnb|Tokhtas’ev|1991}}|{{harvnb|Olbrycht|2000a|pp=72–73}}|{{harvnb|Bouzek|2001|p=38}}|{{harvnb|Xydopoulos|2015|p=119}}}}</ref>

This mention of the Cimmerians in the {{Transliteration|en|Odyssey}} was purely poetic and combined [[fantasy]] with records of real events, and naturalism with supernatural elements, and therefore contained no reliable information about the real Cimmerian people.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=73-74}} This image was created as a poetic opposite of the [[Laestrygonians]] and [[Aethiopia]]ns who, in ancient Greek mythology, lived in a permanently sunlit land on the eastern borders of the world.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=74}}{{sfn|Xydopoulos|2015|p=119}} Due to this location, the Ancient Greek name of the Cimmerians was identified with the word for mist, {{Transliteration|grc|kemmeros}} ({{lang|grc|κεμμερος}}).{{sfn|Xydopoulos|2015|p=119}}

Homer's passage relating to the Cimmerians had however used as its source the [[Argonauts|Argonautic myth]], which dealt with the region of the Black Sea and the country of [[Colchis]], on whose eastern borders the Cimmerians were still living in the 8th century BC.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=74-75}} Thus, Homer's source on the Cimmerians was the Argonautic myth, which itself recorded of their existence when they were still living in northern Transcaucasia:{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=75}}{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=94}} the location of the Cimmerians as recorded by the Argonautic myth corresponds to the same one recorded by the late 7th century BC poem {{Transliteration|grc|Arimaspeia}} by [[Aristeas|Aristeas of Proconessus]] and the later writings of [[Herodotus|Herodotus of Halicarnassus]],{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=75-76}} who both described the Cimmerians as having once dwelt in the steppe to the immediate north of the Caspian Sea,{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=75-76}} with the Araxes river (the [[Volga]]) forming their eastern border separating them from the Scythians.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000b|p=108}}