Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace Orpheus Unmasked

Name: Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace Orpheus Unmasked
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ISBN: 9780198150473

ISBN-10: 0198150474

ISBN-13: 9780198150473

Edition: 1998

Authors: Z. H. Archibald

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Spectacular archaeological discoveries were made during the 1970s and 1980s in Bulgaria and North Aegean Greece which sparked international interest in the forgotten Odrysian kingdom of Thrace. Here, for the first time, these and earlier discoveries are presented in their archaeological and historical context. The Thracians were the fabulously wealthy and populous neighbours of the ancient Greeks, whose golden age began in the fifth century BC when an inter-tribal state was created by the ruling dynasty of the tribe - the Odrysians. A vogue in the Greek world for Orpheus the Thracian coincided with the period of the Odrysians's greatest prominence. Not only does this book analyse the…

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List price: $395.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/9/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 394
Size: 8.62" wide x 10.87" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Plates


Abbreviations



The Early Iron Age Background


Introduction



Problems of Chronology and Methodology



Death, Burial, Memorial, and Renewal



On the Threshold of the Persian Ways



Wealth: Its Symbols and Substance



The Rise of the Odrysian Kingdom C.480-C.389 Bc



The Archaeological Evidence, C-480-C-400 Bc (excluding Burials)



Princely Burials and Funerary Customs



Imported Luxuries and Their Meaning



The Warrior's Image: Arms and the Artist's Projection



Towards a Closer Union with the Greek World



The Odrysian Kingdom Before Alexander the Great



Thracian Knights and the Macedonian Conquest



Metalware and Silver Plate of the Fourth Century Bc



Tomb Architecture and Decoration



Epilogue: an Early Hellenistic Kingdom



Inscription from Asar Dere Near Vetren, Plovdiv Region


Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites


References


Index