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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Greco-Scythian art and the birth of Eurasia
    sub title: from classical antiquity to Russian modernity
  name:
    name part: Meyer, Hans-Caspar
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxix, 431 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
  abstract: Since their discovery in nineteenth-century Russia, Greco-Scythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons. Drawing on a broad array of evidence from archaeology, art history and epigraphy to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, this volume confronts the deep confusion between ancient representation and historical reality in contemporary engagements with classical culture. It argues that the strikingly life-like figure scenes of Greco-Scythian art were integral to the strategies of a cosmopolitan elite who legitimated its economic dominance by asserting an intermediary cultural position between the steppe inland and the urban centres on the shores of the Black Sea.
  table of contents: Introduction : Discovering Greco-Scythian art -- Classical art and Russian identity -- Defining the corpus : Chronology, technique, distribution -- Political monuments of the early Spartocid State -- Looking at Greco-Scythian art -- Greco-Scythian art in practice -- Conclusion.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Caspar Meyer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-un---
  subject:
    topic: Art, Scythian
  subject:
    topic: Scythians
  subject:
    geographic: Black Sea Lowland (Ukraine)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Black Sea Lowland (Ukraine)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Scythes
  subject:
    topic: Art scythe
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Art, Scythian
  subject:
    topic: Scythians
  classification: N5899.S3 M49 2013EB
  classification: 939.51
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
  identifier: 9780191808555
  identifier: 0191808555
  identifier: 9780199682331
  identifier: 019968233X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: QCL
    record creation date: 130626
    record change date: 20260319160927.6
    record identifier: in00005712011
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng