Scythians and Greeks
A Survey of Ancient History and Archaeology on the North Coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19160291 |
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| Authors | J L Myres (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1914 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 843-843 |
| Publication date | 1914-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Scythians and Greeks: A Survey of Ancient History and Archaeology on the North Coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus, Ellis Hovell Minns, 2012 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1836835 |
| OpenAlex | W1989582113 |
| Language | EN |
First published in 1913, Scythians and Greeks is a monumental work, covering the archaeology, ethnology and history of the region between the Carpathians and the Caucasus. Written evidence on Scythia is mostly from Greek sources, but archaeological evidence provides another picture of these nomadic tribes who moved west in about the eighth century BCE, coming into contact with Greeks, Persians and Egyptians. The book is particularly valuable for its research and bibliography on Siberia and Southern Russia, then less well known to western scholars, from where there are many excavated burials containing magnificent jewellery. Sir Ellis Minns (1874–1953) discusses the pre-history and ethnography of the Scythians, and their shifting territories, and also how they were viewed by outsiders. There is a full exposition on Scythian art and the influence on it of Greek art from the Black Sea colonies, and the book contains hundreds of illustrations
Ancient history · Archaeological evidence · Archaeology · Art · Black sea · Ethnography · Exposition (narrative) · Geography · Greeks · Literature · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Classics · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Geology · History
“Siberian Scythia” in the Works of Western Scholars. Part 1. 1913–1980s
Art on the Northern Edge of the Mediterranean World
Racialized Commodities
Paratheatrical Performances in the Bosporan Kingdom
The Northward Advance of Greek Horizons
The Karakhanids and early Islam
The Phanagoria Chous
Herodotus and the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
Epilogue
Herodotus as Anti-classical Toolbox
Theatre and Performance in the Bosporan Kingdom
From Ethnography to History
Black Sea Back Story
Two Victorian Egypts of Herodotus
The Tragedians of Heraclea and Comedians of Sinope
The geographic setting
Herodotus’s Travels in Britain and Beyond
Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea
Celebrating Dionysus in Istros and Tomis
The forest peoples of Manchuria
George Grote and the ‘Open-hearted Herodotus’
Fragmentary Greek Tragedies Set in the Black Sea
Historiography and Theatre
Introduction
Ancient Theatre in Tauric Chersonesus
‘Romantic Poet-Sage of History’
Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
Imagining Empire through Herodotus
The Hun period
The Hsiung-nu
The peoples of the Russian forest belt
Inner Asia at the dawn of history
The peoples of the south Russian steppes
The Heroics of Gerrhus (To the Point of the Scythian Underworld Locus)
Cross-Cultural Interaction and Change in Recent Old World Research
İskitlere ve Türk-Moğol Halklarına Ait Aynı Gelenekler, Kültler ve Psikolojik Özellikler
Spirituality and the Semiotics of Russian Culture
Metals, Culture and Capitalism
Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea
The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
Stratonides Athenaios
Leaded Bronze Arrowheads at Daskyleion
Лепная Керамика Эпохи Бронзы Поселения Ильич-1 По Данным Технико Технологического Анализа
Old Sinitic * M γ ag , Old Persian Maguš , and English “Magician”
Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art
Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases
Une introduction à l’archéologie du royaume du Bosphore Cimmérien
La colonisation grecque du bosphore Cimmérien
Archeology
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