sentences:  The name of Koloksai, a legendary founder of a royal dynasty, is mentioned by Alcman in the 7th century BC.Prototi and Madius, Scythian kings in the Near Eastern period of their history, and their successors in the north Pontic steppes belonged to the same dynasty.Herodotus lists five generations of a royal clan that probably reigned at the end of the 7th to 6th centuries BC