Book Description
Learn all there is to know about Scythians and Sarmatians, who played a compelling but often overlooked role in ancient history.
Author : Kathryn Hinds
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761445197
Learn all there is to know about Scythians and Sarmatians, who played a compelling but often overlooked role in ancient history.
Author : Tadeusz Sulimirski
Publisher :
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 9780500020715
Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 139904737X
The Scythians were a horse nomads from the central Eurasian steppes who migrated south and west into the region around the Black Sea from the seventh century BC which they dominated until replaced and absorbed by the very similar Sarmatians from the third century BC. A harsh life spent riding, herding and hunting on the steppes made them into tough warriors, and highly skilled horsemen and archers. Their armies were highly mobile, mostly comprising swift mounted archers capable of elusive hit-and-run attacks but with the wealthier warriors constituting a core of heavier cavalry, armored and equipped for close combat. Over hundreds of years the Scythians fought, and often defeated, such notable opponents as the Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Greeks and Macedonians. Their Sarmatian successors continued the tradition, being among the Romans’ most dangerous opponents for several centuries. Gabriele Esposito discusses these remarkable warriors of the steppes, analysing what made them such formidable opponents to their neighbours over the centuries. He describes in detail their weapons, armor, equipment and tactics as they evolved over the centuries. The fascinating text is supported by dozens of beautiful color photographs of replica costume, arms and equipment in use.
Author : Valeriya Kozlovskaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107019516
The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity brings together the latest research on an important region of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author : Richard Brzezinski
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2002-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781841764856
The Sarmatians - one of the many nomadic groups to emerge from the great Eurasian Steppe - crossed the Don in about the 3rd century BC to displace their western neighbours, the Scythians, in the lands north of the Black Sea. Later they burst into Asia Minor and Rome's Danube provinces, becoming famous for the prowess of their lance-armed cavalry - first as enemies, and later as allies of Rome. They influenced Rome's adoption of heavy armoured cavalry, and in Roman service they were even posted to Britain. Drawing upon a wide reading of Classical authors and of Russian archaeological publications, this fascinating study is the first major English language attempt to reconstruct their armour, equipment and tactics.
Author : János Harmatta
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Iranian languages
ISBN :
Author : Joan Aruz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Scythian
ISBN : 1588392058
Author : Gillian Bradshaw
Publisher : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312870752
The Roman Empire sends a barbarian warrior to faraway Britain in this historical novel of love and survival in the ancient world. A Sarmatian warrior-prince, Ariantes is uprooted from his home and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact with the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Ariantes and his troop are sent to watch over Hadrian’s Wall. Unsurprisingly, the Sarmatians hate Britain—an Island of Ghosts, filled with pale faces, stone walls, and an uneasy past. Struggling to command his own people to defend a land they despise, Ariantes is accepted by all, but trusted by none. The Romans fear his barbarian background, and his own men fear his gradual Roman assimilation. When Ariantes uncovers a conspiracy sure to damage both his Roman benefactors and his beloved countrymen, as well as put him and the woman he loves in grave danger, he must make a difficult decision—one that will change his own life forever.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2019-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950922581
Masters of the horse, the Scythians and Sarmatians opened the Eurasian Steppe to nomadic civilizations like it had never seen before. For the first time, a group of tribes sharing a common culture called the Steppe their home, adapting themselves to its harshness.
Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : 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.