Sources on the Alans: a critical compilation

Agust? Alemany

BRILL, 2000 - Social Science - 461 pages

The first exhaustive key to the sources to, and the proper names of the Alans. The scattered nature of sources and their dispersion in time, space and intermediary languages may explain the lack of a true comprehensive guide to this important ancient people, a nomadic tribe of Iranian stock, living from one end of the Eurasian steppes to the other. Documents from ancient up to medieval times regularly make, in a wide variety of languages, mention of the Alans. With his Sources on the Alans Agustí Alemany now provides us for the first time with a reliable and exhaustive handbook by collecting, classifying, translating (or summarizing) all reports on the Alans written in Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, Byzantine, Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Georgian, Hebrew, Iranian, Mongol, Russian, Syriac and Chinese languages. The volume will also be frequently used as an Onomasticon. With time tables and indices on authors and passages. A reference work in the truest sense.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 79
• Section 4: 116
• Section 5: 166
• Section 6: 170
• Section 7: 244
• Section 8: 278
• Section 9: 302
• Section 10: 308
• Section 11: 323
• Section 12: 330
• Section 13: 338
• Section 14: 372
• Section 15: 378
• Section 16: 387
• Section 17: 396
• Section 18: 421
• Section 19: 435
• Section 20: 449
• Section 21: 457
• Section 22: 458
• Section 23: 460
• Section 24: 464

About the author

Agusti Alemany, Ph.D. (1997) in Classical Philology is Assistant Lecturer in Greek Philology at the autonomous University of Barcelona.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sources on the Alans: a critical compilation; Volume 5 of 8], [Handbuch der Orientalistik; Volume 5 of Handbook of Oriental Studies; Volume 5 of Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic and Central Asian Studies; Volume 5 of Handbook of Oriental Studies: Zentralasien, ISSN 0169-8524; Volume 5 of Handbuch der Orientalistik. Achte Abteilung, Handbook of Uralic studies; Volume 5 of Handbuch der Orientalistik: Achte Abteilung, Zentralasien; Volume 5 of Handbuch der Orientalistik: Zentralasien
• Editor: Agust? Alemany
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: BRILL, 2000
• ISBN: 9004114424, 9789004114425
• Length: 461 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Interior Design / General; History / Ancient / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / General