
The Scythians
Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
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Narrated by:
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Matthew Waterson
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By:
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Barry Cunliffe
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 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. 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, where all the organic material 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 vigor and splendor for the first time in over two millennia.
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archaeologically based
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complete central steppe history 1500BC-430CE
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Woefully Short
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informative but very dry
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by professor Kenneth W. Harl
this book gives more in-depth and fascinating cultural insight into the scythians, than you get from the lectures. though at the very end of the book the description of the artifacts is a little odd for audiobook. still every enjoyable .
a must listen for ancient history enjoyers
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the author links interesting quotations from ancient sources about the Scythians with corroborating physical evidence.
The narrator also uses some odd pronunciations that I haven't heard before, and I don't think it's just the British accent.
If you don't need this for research purposes, or a handy soporific, you may want to pass on this one.
Sounds more like an academic paper
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A great book
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That the Scythians had Transgender Priests and Shamans.
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Amazing overview of Scythian culture
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Best Account on "Obscure" Group
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