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Tamara Talbot Rice. The Scythians. London: Thames and Hudson. (“Ancient Peoples and Places”) Tamara Talbot Rice

The Scythians.

63 photographs, 65 line drawings, and 4 maps.

// London: Thames and Hudson. 256 pp. (“Ancient Peoples and Places”, vol. II)

 

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Contents

 

List of illustrations. – 8

The scythian kings. – 13

Foreword. – 15

Introduction. – 17

 

I. The Background. – 33

II. The People. – 57

III. The Tombs. – 92

IV. Worldly goods. – 125

V. The art of the scythian world. – 147

VI. The scythian legacy. – 178

 

Major burials of the scythians and kindred nomads. – 198

Bibliography. – 201

The plates [1-62]. – 209

Notes on the plates. – 241

Index. – 247

 

 

 

 

 

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To those who lived at Volgovo.

 

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The Scythian Kings.   ^

 

Targitaus.

The reputed head of the Phalatæ dynasty, but probably a wholly legendary personage.

Colaxis.

Probably founded the dynasty of Royal Scyths.

Spargapeithes.

 

Lycus.

Son of Spargapeithes.

Gnurus.

Son of Lycus.

Partatua

and his son Madyes, possibly his co-ruler or deputy. They ruled in Urartu ñ. 630 B.C.

Saulius.

Brother of Anacharsis, was ruler in 589 B.C.

Idanthyrsus.

With Taxacis and Scopacis (possibly deputies or co-rulers) opposed Darius ñ. 516 B.C.

Ariapeithes.

Son of Idanthyrsus, married a Greek woman from Istrus as well as a Scythian and also the daughter of the Thracian chief Teres.

Scyles.

Son of Ariapeithes, at whose death he married his Greek stepmother killed by his brother Octamasades for his philhellene sympathies.

Octomasades.

Succeeded Scyles. Just prior to Herodotus.

Arianthus.

He held a census of his people.

Aristagoras.

Reigned ñ. 495 B.C.

Aertes.

Killed in battle by Philip of Macedon in 339 B.C. at the age of ninety.

Agarus.

Sheltered the youngest son of the Bosphoran ruler Spartocus. The latter was succeeded by his ño-ruler Pairisades I, who refused to pay tribute due to the Scythians and was consequently killed in battle by Agarus in 310 B.C.

Scylurus.

Struck coins at Olbia ñ. 110 B.C. and had his capital at Neapolis.

Palakus.

Son of Scylurus.

 

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No man is an island

Entire of itself;

Every man is a piece of the continent

A part of the main.

John Donne

 

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Foreword.   ^

 

I should like to express my deep appreciation of the ready advice given to me on many occasions by Professor Stuart Piggott, and of the kindness and generosity of Professor Victor Lazarev, of The Art Historical Institute, Moscow, and Dr Alice Bank, of The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, for their gift of many of the photographs with which this volume is illustrated.

 

I am likewise very grateful to Professor John Orr for his translation of the quotation from Pushkin; to Mrs Glyn Daniel for the infinite patience with which she worked on the maps illustrating this book; to Dr Davies for checking my list of Asiatic plants; to Mr Leonid Zouroff for telling me a great deal about his researches into the survival of ancient beliefs amongst the Lithuanian peasantry; to Mrs Scott for some excellent drawings; to Miss Timbey of the photographic department of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR; to Mr Zarnecki of the Courtauld Institute for helpful advice with regard to illustrations; to Mr. Harold Bowen and Lt.-Col. Wheeler for the loan of scarce books; and, above all, to my husband for his unfailing help.

Ò.Ò.R.

^   The Scythians.

 

The Scythians interested Herodotus — so much that he made a special journey to Olbia, on the Black Sea, to study their customs; we still depend largely upon his descriptions. But in recent years much work has been done in South Russia and the Altai and a very much fuller picture can be obtained of this vigorous nomad people, with their unique animal art, and love of the horse.

 

Mrs. Talbot Rice has brought together a vast amount of information from sources that are not available in the English language and her original conclusions are most provocative. Having travelled extensively in the Near and Middle East she can enter with sympathy into the whole spirit of the nomad way of life. Her suggested link in art styles between East and West is convincingly shown by the comparative illustration material, and may there not indeed be some truth in her suggestion that the English love of horses and ‘turnout’ stems from the nomads who introduced the art of riding to Western Europe? Her book is a blend of humour, shrewd observation and carefully recorded fact, at once a source book for archaeologists and a fascinating record of a most unusual people.

 

Many of the 62 photographs have been obtained specially from Russia and there are also line drawings and three maps. The full bibliography of books in many languages will be particularly welcome.

 

For information on the author see back flap.

 

About the Author.   ^

 

Tamara Talbot Rice was born in St Petersburg, present-day Leningrad, but left Russia soon after the outbreak of the Revolution. After studying at Oxford she spent some years working as a journalist in Paris. She returned to England after her marriage in 1927 to David Talbot Rice, who is Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art at Edinburgh University.

 

Her love of archaeology dates from her Russian childhood, but extensive travel in the Near East and the Mediterranean area, coupled with experience gained at first hand whilst working on the excavations conducted by her husband, have progressively deepened this interest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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