2013-ban jelent meg Caspar Meyer képekkel gazdagon illusztrált könyve a Gréko-Szkíta (Görög-Szkíta) művészetről és Eurázsia születéséről. S, hogy miről szól? Tessék: 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. Investigating the
reception of this 'Eurasian' self-image in tsarist Russia. Meyer unravels the complex
relationship between ancient ideology and modern imperial visions, and its
legacy in current conceptions of cultural interaction and identity. With a
synthesis of material evidence never yet attempted, this volume breaks significant new ground in explaining the archaeology
of Scythia and its ties to inner Asia and classical Greece, the
intersection between modern museum display and visual knowledge, and the
intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
Caspar
Meyer, Lecturer in Classical Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
431 pages,
Oxford
University
Press,
2013
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