اللغة: | اللغة الإنجليزية |
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الناشر: | Oxford University Press |
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الكاتب 1: | Barry Cunliffe |
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عن المؤلف: | Barry Cunliffe Taught Archaeology at The Universities of Bristol And Southampton And Was Professor of European Archaeology at The University of Oxford From 1972 to 2008, Thereafter Becoming Emeritus Professor. He Has Excavated Widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) And in The Channel Islands, Brittany, And Spain, And Has Been President of The Council For British Archaeology And of The Society of Antiquaries, Governor of The Museum |
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وصف الكتاب: | 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 |
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تاريخ النشر: | 1 Dec 2019 |
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عدد الصفحات: | 408 |
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المراجعة التحريرية: | The Scythians, Superbly Written And Lavishly Illustrated, is The Best Account of These Hard-Riding Nomads we Are Likely to Have For a Long Time to come. Especially Worthy of Note Are The Excellent Maps And Diagrams, Expertly Placed to Help The Reader Chart The Wanderings of The Scythians in Some of The World's Most Remote locations. * Ed Voves, Art Eyewitness * Not to be missed. * Timeless Travels * Cunliffe Writes in an Uncluttered Style And With a Seemingly Effortless Authority About a Complex People ... The Book is Beautifully Produced With Plenty of Colour Illustrations, Including Excellent Maps of Unfamiliar places. It Will Surely Become The Standard Introduction to a Remarkable Lost world. * Tony Spawforth, Literary Review * A Scintillating Tour de Force From Probably The Greatest Scholar of European archaeology. * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Bbc History Magazine, Books of The Year 2019 * |
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رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 10: | 0198820127 |
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رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 13: | 9780198820123 |
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of London, a Commissioner of English Heritage, And a Trustee of The British Museum. His Many Publications Include Facing The Ocean (2001), The Druids: | A Very Short Introduction (2010), Britain Begins (2012), By Steppe, Desert, And Ocean (2015), And On The Ocean (2017), All Published by Oxford |
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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 |
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