Cimmerian
Journal: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint previously known as Arden Shakespeare eBooks
Year: 2017

In Titus Andronicus the Roman Bassianus describes Aaron, a Moor , as Tamora’s ‘swart Cimmerian’ (2.2.72). The OED lists this passage in support of the following definition: ‘A member of a nomadic people of antiquity, the earliest known inhabitants of the Crimea, who overr