Scythians and Greeks
Author | : Ellis H. Minns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Art, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ellis H. Minns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Art, Greek |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Braund |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107170591 |
Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.
Author | : Caspar Meyer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 019968233X |
Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art history, and textual sources to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, Meyer offers unique introductions to the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to Asia and classical Greece, modern museum and visual culture studies, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
Author | : Ellis Hovell Minns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Art, Greek |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barry Cunliffe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192551868 |
Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather different - both communities benefiting from trading with each other. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. It is from the writings of Greeks like the historian Herodotus that we learn of Scythian life: their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting, and their ambivalent attitudes to gender. It is a world that is also brilliantly illuminated by the rich material culture recovered from Scythian burials, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - is amazingly well preserved. Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence - both archaeological and textual - in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.
Author | : David Braund |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Scythians and Greeks will open up the region to a wider audience, bringing the Scythians into the mainstream of the western European study of ancient history; it will also take further the debate started by E. H. Minns' landmark publication of the same name published almost a century ago. The book brings together experts in the field, giving a taste of the scholarship coming out of the former USSR after years of separation and providing a starting-point for engagement with the Black Sea region."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Ellis H. Minns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adrienne Mayor |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691170274 |
The real history of the Amazons in war and love Amazons—fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world—were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons. But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China. Mayor tells how amazing new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons prove that women warriors were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, she reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of the women known as Amazons. Provocatively arguing that a timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds us that there were as many Amazon love stories as there were war stories. The Greeks were not the only people enchanted by Amazons—Mayor shows that warlike women of nomadic cultures inspired exciting tales in ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, and China. Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. The result is likely to become a classic.
Author | : Ellis H. Minns |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780331585308 |
Excerpt from Scythians and Greeks: A Survey of Ancient History and Archaeology on the North Coast of the Euxine, From the Danube to the Caucasus Other obligations and work having nothing in common with this have made the writing, and also the printing, of the book a very slow business, further delayed by the continual flow of fresh material, the incorporation of which, especially at the later stages, has presented some difficulty there have also resulted certain unavoidable inconsistencies, Important facts which I have learnt since the earlier sheets were printed off are briefly indicated in the Addenda, to which I would ask the reader's attention, but these supplements, necessarily, have been kept down rather jealously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Tamara Talbot Rice |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013556005 |
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