{"subjects": ["Art, scythian", "Scythian Art", "Scythians", "History", "Antiquities"], "key": "/works/OL17434216W", "title": "Grecoscythian Art And The Birth Of Eurasia From Classical Antiquity To Russian Modernity", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2025630A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [7570753], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2016-10-14T07:20:09.148110"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-05T07:45:35.403199"}}