Arion the Wanderer

I am Arion, called the Wanderer, a 4th century BC anachronism in the SCA culture. I was born to a Greek mother and Celt father in the Greek trading colony of Olbia in the Scythian lands north of the Euxine Sea (Black Sea). My father traded gold and silver torcs between his homeland of Alesia in Gaul, along the Danube River, all the way to Scythia. When I reached an age where my father thought me useful, he took me along and taught me his trade. After he died, I expanded my horizons and traveled as far south as Rome. This was a most profitable trip. When I was trading with the Senones in the Po river valley, Roman "ambasadors" killed a Senone chieftian. As a matter of honor, the Senone tribesmen lead by Brennus, traveled to Rome and sacked the city. It fell except for the fortified Capitoline Hill. After seven months of raids in the country side and multiple failed attempts to capture the Capitoline Hill brought us to an impass, the Romans agreed to give us 1,000 lbs of gold to leave.