... The history of ancient Thrace - turbulent and intoxicating, seductive, enticing and mysterious, filled to the brim with gods and heroes, with Orphic mysteries and Dionysian celebrations, with dancing nymphs, menads, satyrs and Bacchantes. They call it the last unsolved mystery of the ancient world...
"The new book-album "Bulgaria - The Ancient Land of the Thracians", published by the studio "Vitamin-Art" tells wonders about the life of the Thracians and their world. With the power of the word and the knowledge of some of the greatest ancient authors, contemporaries of the Thracians, as well as the most famous Bulgarian scientists, historians, ethnographers and archaeologists, the story of the ancient Thracian people is told in a unique way. The book features some of the most interesting Thracian temples, tombs, fortresses, sanctuaries and rock cities, including Harman Kaya, Belintash, Markov Stone, Tatul, Perperikon, the Valley of the Thracian Kings, the Kazanlak Tombs, Starosel, etc. A special place is given to Thracian customs, myths and legends, the food of the Thracians, their jewellery, dances, clothing and their attitude to wine.
The book contains texts by Josephus Flavius, Gaius Julius Solinus, Pavzanius, Homer, Diodorus, Virgil, Apollodorus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Strabo, the brothers Karel and Vladimir Shkorpil, who tell about the life of the Thracians, alongside professors Vasil Mikov, Ivan Marazov, Valeria Fol, Nikolai Ovcharov, Georg Kraev, Diana Gergova, Ilias Petropoulos, Totko Stoyanov, associate professor Maya Vassileva, Diana Dimitrova and others. Magnificent photographs tell about the wonders of Thracian life, their golden treasures, jewels, coins, medical instruments.
- Автор:Tatiana Uzunova, Narcis Torbov
- Издателство:Vitamin-Art Studio
- ISBN:9786199024270
- Година:2016
- Страници:288
- Корици:hard covers
- Състояние:excellent