{"database": "deitydb", "table": "periods", "rows": [["PER_THRA_IRON_AGE", "Thracian", "Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period", -700, 150, "Period of documented Thracian religious and cultural activity, from the emergence of the Odrysian kingdom and earliest Greek attestations of Thracian deities (c. 700 BCE) through the Roman absorption of Thrace (Claudius established the province in 46 CE) and into the early Imperial period when Thracian mystery cults \u2014 Sabazios, Bendis, Cotys \u2014 continued spreading through the Roman Empire. Primary Greek attestations cluster in the 5th\u20134th c. BCE: Herodotus on Zalmoxis and Gebeleizis (c. 430 BCE), Aristophanes and Demosthenes on Sabazios in Athens, Plato on Bendis (Republic 327a, c. 375 BCE). Archibald (1998) is the standard secondary reference for the Odrysian kingdom and Thracian religion."]], "columns": ["period_id", "tradition", "period_name", "start_year", "end_year", "notes"], "primary_keys": ["period_id"], "primary_key_values": ["PER_THRA_IRON_AGE"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7906210000214742, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}