Einiges zu den Skythen, ihrer Sprache, ihrem Nachleben (Veroffentlichungen Zur Iranistik) (German Edition) - Softcover

Mayrhofer, Manfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3700137311 ISBN 13: 9783700137313

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book is in the tradition of the Austrian founder of Old Iranian study on the Scythians, Wilhelm Tomaschek (1841-1901). Mayrhofer's book deals, on the one hand, with the continuance of a Scythian topos in the Middle Ages (up to Franz Grillparzer); on the other hand, it pleads for a seperation of Scythian in a narrower definition (especially Herodotus') from younger languages like Sarmatian. The book offers a critical examination of the writings on Scythian (during almost two centuries); the result of this examination is a small Etymologicon of the Scythian language. Scythian is the fourth Old Iranian language: besides the two corpus-languages, Avestan and Old Persian, and Median, which is only reconstructed from the influences this language had on Old Persian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3700137311
• ISBN 13: 9783700137313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48