CHARIOT: THE ASTOUNDING RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD’S FIRST WAR MACHINE

Book ID/图书代码： 11320004B08388

English Summary/英文概要： The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in Mesopotamia, then in Asia Minor and Egypt, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. In c. 1286 BC at Kadesh in the Eastern Mediterranean - where the troops of Ramesses II overwhelmed the Hittites - 5,000 chariots were deployed. Its use is recounted in Indian epics and Chinese histories. Homer’s Iliad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek charioteers. When Alexander the Great descended into the North Indian plain in early 326BC, he found chariots as well as elephants in the armies ranged against him. After its disappearance from the battlefield, chariot racing attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators. The Emperor Nero drove his own ten-horse chariot in the Olympic Games (he fell out but still won the prize). In Constantinople in AD 352 a three-day riot, ignited by a chariot race, left over 30,000 people dead after the Emperor Justinian had to send in troops to restore order. This unique book traces the rise and fall of the chariot right across the Old World, from Ireland, through Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China. Illustrated throughout and exploring the chariot’s legacy - not least as depicted in Hol

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 战车改变了古代战争的特点。在美索不达米亚，小亚西亚，埃及，是战车勇士统治着战场的时代。公元前1286年，地中海西部卡迪什地区，雷米斯二世的军队征服了西傣族，5000辆战车投入战场。它的使用在印度的史典和中国的史记上都有记载。荷马的《伊利亚特》讲述了希腊战车攻击特洛伊的故事。亚历山大大帝在公元前326年进军北印度平原，亲眼看到了武装战车和大象攻击他的情景。战车从战场上退役之后，他变成了一种比赛工具，吸引了成千上万的人来观看。尼禄大帝在奥林匹克运动会上亲自驾御自己的十马战车参加比赛，虽然被落在后面，他还是得了奖。352年，在君士坦丁堡由于战车比赛引起了骚乱，导致3万人死亡，最后东罗马帝国的皇帝不得不出动军队平息叛乱。本书描写了战车在古代爱尔兰，罗马，希腊，美索不达米亚，埃及，印度以及中国的起伏历史，书中不只是空洞的文字描写，而是以图文并貌的形式来讲述。

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About the Author/作者介绍： 亚瑟·考特尔,金斯敦大学的校长。他以前的作品包括《克里特文明》,《世界神话宝典》,《古代文明百科全书》,《皮米里克古代文明词典:希腊,罗马,波斯,印度,中国》, 《东亚中国和太平洋地区的崛起》,《中国古代历史》等 Arthur Cotterell is Principal of Kingston College. His previous books include The Minoan World, A Dictionary of World Mythology, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Classical Civilizations, The Pimlico Dictionary of Classical Civilizations: Greece, Rome, Persia, India and China, The Pimlico Dictionary of Classical Mythologies: Greece, Rome, Iran, India and China, East Asia: From Chinese Predominance to the Rise of the Pacific Rim, and China: A Cultural History. He lives in Surrey.

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