Arts and Religion: Cross Cultural Communication between Greece and Scythian in the Fifth Century BC

Abstract

Scythians were the ancestor for most of the nomadic clans in Eurasia continent. Their footprint covered Ancient Greece, Ancient middle Asia and Ancient China. Their culture and customs can be mixed with different cultures and the culture were brought from West to the East and from the East to the West. The essay will focus on the discussion about the culture communication between Greek and Scythian culture. The article is separated into two parts. The first part will evaluate the primary source and the secondary source that will be used as evidence to support the argument. ‘Histories’ written by Herodotus, and ‘By Steppe, Desert and Ocean, the Birth of Eurasia’, written by Barry Cunliffe, will be evaluated in the method of OPCVL. In the second part, art communication and religious communication are expressed in two sources, and some art crafts from Scythian or Greek burials will prove that the communication between two cultures reproduced the hybrids with the characteristic from two cultures.