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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe. Image cartographique : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cunliffe, Barry Windsor (1939-....)
Titre(s) : The Scythians [Texte imprimé] : nomad warriors of the steppe / Barry Cunliffe
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : vii, 400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Sujet(s) : Scythes
Art scythe
Antiquités scythes
Asie centrale -- Jusqu'à 712
Indice(s) Dewey :
939.51 (23e éd.) = Histoire antique - Scythie - Jusqu'à 0640
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198820127. - ISBN 9780198820123
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb458660425
Notice n° :
FRBNF45866042
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Discovering the Scythians ; The Scythians as others saw them ; Landscapes with
people ; Enter the predatory nomads ; The rise of the Pontic Steppe Scythians: 700-200
BC ; Crossing the Carpathians ; Scythians in central Asia: 700-200 BC ; Bodies
clothed in skins ; Bending the bow ; Of gods, beliefs, and art ; The way of death
; Scythians in the Longue Durée.
