The Ossetes

Author : Richard Foltz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755618475
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ossetes written by Richard Foltz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ossetes, a small nation inhabiting two adjacent states in the central Caucasus, are the last remaining linguistic and cultural descendants of the ancient nomadic Scythians who dominated the Eurasian steppe from the Balkans to Mongolia for well over one thousand years. A nominally Christian nation speaking a language distantly related to Persian, the Ossetes have inherited much of the culture of the medieval Alans who brought equestrian culture to Europe. They have preserved a rich oral literature through the epic of the Narts, a body of heroic legends that shares much in common with the Persian Book of Kings and other works of Indo-European mythology. This is the first book devoted to the little-known history and culture of the Ossetes to appear in any Western language. Charting Ossetian history from Antiquity to today, it will be a vital contribution to the fields of Iranian, Caucasian, Post-Soviet and Indo-European Studies.

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192551868
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scythians written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, 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 - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - 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. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. 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, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - 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 vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.

Author : Richard Foltz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755618484
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ossetes written by Richard Foltz and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ossetes, a small nation inhabiting two adjacent states in the central Caucasus, are the last remaining linguistic and cultural descendants of the ancient nomadic Scythians who dominated the Eurasian steppe from the Balkans to Mongolia for well over one thousand years. A nominally Christian nation speaking a language distantly related to Persian, the Ossetes have inherited much of the culture of the medieval Alans who brought equestrian culture to Europe. They have preserved a rich oral literature through the epic of the Narts, a body of heroic legends that shares much in common with the Persian Book of Kings and other works of Indo-European mythology. This is the first book devoted to the little-known history and culture of the Ossetes to appear in any Western language. Charting Ossetian history from Antiquity to today, it will be a vital contribution to the fields of Iranian, Caucasian, Post-Soviet and Indo-European Studies."--

Author : Julius von Klaproth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in the Caucasus and Georgia written by Julius von Klaproth and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jalaloddin Rumi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786726092
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masnavi of Rumi, Book Two written by Jalaloddin Rumi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's Masnavi had been revered in the Islamic world as its greatest mystical text. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, stories and fables, and deeply versed in spiritual teaching, it takes us on a profound and playful journey of discovery along the path of divine love, toward its ultimate goal of union with the source of all Truth. In Book Two of the Masnavi, the second of six volumes, we travel with Rumi toward an understanding of the deeper truth and reality, beyond the limits of the self. Alan Williams's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference. True to the spirit of Rumi's poem, this new translation establishes the Masnavi as one of the world's great literary achievements for a global readership. Translated with an introduction, notes and analysis by Alan Williams and including the Persian text edited by Mohammad Este'lami.

Author : B. G. Hewitt
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0728602520
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Georgian Reader written by B. G. Hewitt and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Reader is quite simply designed to meet the requirements of those who, having grappled with the intricacies of Georgian grammar by following a course such as that available as of 1996 in my Georgian: A Learner's Grammar (Routledge), need to practice and extend their newly acquired knowledge by familiarising themselves with some original Georgian writing. To facilitate the learner's greater understanding of the Georgian, the source-text is presented here in parallel with the translation and followed by a list of pertinent vocabulary."--P. ix.

Author : Steven L. Danver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317464001
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Peoples of the World written by Steven L. Danver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.

Author : Jits van Straten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110236060
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Ashkenazi Jewry written by Jits van Straten and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do East European Jews – about 90 percent of Ashkenazi Jewry – descend from? This book conveys new insights into a century-old controversy. Jits van Straten argues that there is no evidence for the most common assumption that German Jews fled en masse to Eastern Europe to constitute East European Jewry. Dealing with another much debated theory, van Straten points to the fact that there is no way to identify the descendants of the Khazars in the Ashkenazi population. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author draws heavily on demographic findings which are vital to evaluate the conclusions of modern DNA research. Finally, it is suggested that East European Jews are mainly descendants of Ukrainians and Belarussians. UPDATE: The article “The origin of East European Ashkenazim via a southern route” (Aschkenas 2017; 27(1): 239-270) is intended to clarify the origin of East European Jewry between roughly 300 BCE and 1000 CE. It is a supplement to this book.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Author : United Service Institution of India
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the United Service Institution of India written by United Service Institution of India and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: