The Scythians by Caspar Meyer

The Scythians by Caspar Meyer

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 imaginations – 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 in which people and things move together in unexpected and transformative ways.

This bold and ambitious book brings to life the horse-riding peoples of the Eurasian steppe while also exploring the political conditions that have shaped their discovery and study from Imperial Russia to the presentIt offers a nuanced account of Western, Russian, and Ukrainian scholarship, presenting major anthropological theories accessibly and vividly illustrating how textual sources and archaeology together illuminate the past. * Karen S. Rubinson, Research Associate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University *

Caspar Meyer is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center in New York. He has published widely on ancient Greek and Scythian art, including Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia (2013).

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ISBN 13	9781836391937
ISBN 10	1836391935
Title	The Scythians
Author	Caspar Meyer
Series	Lost Civilizations
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Year published	2026-05-01
Number of pages	240
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