The Scythians: Lost Civilizations by Meyer, Caspar

The Scythians: Lost Civilizations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781836391937)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Scythians: Lost Civilizations by Meyer, Caspar

The Scythians: Lost Civilizations

$25.00
The Scythians: Lost Civilizations by Meyer, Caspar

The Scythians: Lost Civilizations

$25.00
Format: Hardcover
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Reimagines the Scythians as highly mobile cultural innovators.

The Scythians offers a bold new take on the horse-riding peoples who once inhabited the vast steppe lands from the Black Sea to the Siberian Altai. Drawing on archaeological finds, ancient texts, and comparative insights, Caspar Meyer shows how these communities forged dynamic networks rooted in art, mobility, and interspecies relationships. He brings ancient and modern encounters with the Scythians into dialogue--from Herodotus' ethnography to modernist art and contemporary national imagination--revealing how their literary and visual afterlives continue to shape our understanding. Long reduced to barbarian stereotypes, the Scythians emerge as cultural innovators and co-creators of Eurasian history. Lively, accessible, and thought-provoking, this book opens up a world where people and things move together in unexpected and transformative ways.

Author: Caspar Meyer
ISBN-10: 1836391935
ISBN-13: 9781836391937
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
By Caspar Meyer
By Caspar Meyer
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Caspar Meyer is professor of classical archaeology and material culture at Bard Graduate Center, New York. He has published widely on ancient Greek and Scythian art, including Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia.

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