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The Scythians - Nomad Warriors of the Steppe (Paperback)
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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.
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