The Scythian Empire : : Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China / / Christopher I. Beckwith.
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient worldIn the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 18 b/w illus. 9 tables. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Diagrams and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Terminology
- Transcriptions and Conventions
- Sources and Citations
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Introduction
- Prologue: Central Eurasian Innovators
- 1 The Scythians in the Central Eurasian Steppes
- 2 The Scythians in Media and Central Asia
- 3 The Scytho-Mede Persian Empire
- 4 One Eternal Royal Line
- 5 Imperial Scythian in the Persian Empire
- 6 Classical Scythian in the Central Eurasian Steppes
- 7 The Scythian Empire in Chao and the First Chinese Empire
- 8 The Scythian Capitals of Media, Chao, and Ch’in
- Epilogue: Scythian Philosophy and the Classical Age
- Appendix A: Zoroaster and Monotheism
- Appendix B: Scythian and Scytho-Mede Dress and Weaponry
- Endnotes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index