chatting happily. When Stryngaeus told Zarinaia of his feelings, she gently rejected him and chastised him for his infidelity towards his own wife and concubines, after which Stryngaeus wrote a farewell letter to Zarinaia and decided to commit suicide. However the records beyond Stryngaeus's decision to kill himself have not been preserved, leaving his fate unknown. Thanks to Zarinaia's heroic achievements and because she had kept her people happy, after her death she was honoured by them with a huge 600 feet high pyramidal mound-tomb at the top of which was a golden statue. Legacy The name of Zarinaia has been artificially revived among Ossetians in the form (). See also Massagetae, another Saka tribe which had contacts with the Medes References Sources Legendary rulers Saka people Women in ancient warfare Women in war in Asia