Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Beckwith, Christopher I. (1945-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The Scythian empire [Texte imprimé] : Central Eurasia and the birth of the classical age from Persia to China / Christopher I. Beckwith

Publication : Princeton (N. J.) : Princeton University Press, copyright [2023]

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxxii, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-365) and index
"In the late 8th to early 7th century BC, Scythian steppe warriors conquered Central Eurasia and peripheral regions in Iran and China, revolutionizing the local cultures. A nomadic herding people who lived with their cats in felt-tent homes on wheels, the Scythians spread their complex, mobile, highly innovative culture into the frontiers of Southeast Europe, the Near East, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. They produced the world's first "global" civilization: the great cultural flowering known as the Classical Age. In this book, Christopher Beckwith, one of the leading scholars of Central Eurasia, provides a new account of this fascinating culture, their empires, and their influence. He covers their tightly interwoven religious-social economic-political system, their heavenly royal lineage and language, their strikingly elegant new clothing fashions, and their revolutionary thought: Scythian philosophy. Politically, in the west the Scythians founded the sedentary world's first true empire, based in Media (northwestern Iran), which eventually became the Persian Empire. In the east their realm based in Chao (straddling the frontier with northern Chinese culture) introduced the key concepts that led to formation of Chinese national identity and the Chinese Empire. With the Scythian source of these tremendous changes as its focus, the book solves several mysteries surrounding the Scythians and presents some of the greatest true stories of Antiquity in a new light"

Sujet(s) : Scythes  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Nomades -- Asie centrale -- Antiquité  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Civilisation -- Asie centrale -- Antiquité  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  939.51 (23e éd.) = Histoire antique - Scythie - Jusqu'à 0640  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691240534. - ISBN 0691240531. - ISBN 9780691240541 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47170363s

Notice n° :  FRBNF47170363 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Prologue: Central Eurasian innovators ; The Scythians in the Central Eurasian steppes ; The Scythians in media and Central Asia ; The Scytho-Mede Persian empire ; One eternal royal line ; Imperial Scythian in the Persian empire ; Classical Scythian in the central Eurasian steppes Eurasia ; The Scythian empire in chao and the first Chinese empire ; The Scythian capitals of Media, Chao, and Ch'in ; Epilogue: Scythian philosophy and the classical age.