From the Lands of Scythians
Author | : Boris Piotrovsky |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Boris Piotrovsky |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Art, Scythian |
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Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : Bulfinch |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Art |
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This book chronicles the beautiful exhibit of Scythian and Sarmatian treasures that travelled to New York and to L.A. in 1975. The Scythians and Sarmatians were the original peoples who inspired the Greek legends of the centaurs and the Amazons -- the mounted Scythian warriors seeming to be one with their horses, and the female warriors of the Sarmatians stood out so much that the legend has discarded the men of the Sarmatian tribe. Both groups lived in the area bordered by the Dneipr and Ural Rivers to the east and west respectively, and by the Black Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Caspian Sea to the south.
Author | : Ann Farkas |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1973 |
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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 | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
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Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Ellen Reeder |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1999-11 |
Genre | : Art |
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"Scythian Gold and the exhibition it accompanies, "Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine, " present the most important Scythian gold objects in Ukraine, many of which were discovered only in the last two decades. This exhibition and catalogue combine an analysis of these pieces with an overview of recent advances in our understanding of Scythian culture."--BOOK JACKET.