The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area (Historia - Einzelschriften)

Of all the areas colonised by the Greeks, the Black Sea is one of the least-known in the West, although the area is gradually opening up to Western scholarship. This volume presents the work of Western and Eastern scholars - archaeologists, historians, linguists, epigraphists - on the Black Sea. Contents: Greek colonisation of the Black Sea Area: Stages, models and native population (G. R. Tsetskhladze); Greek ideas of the north and the east (M. Vassileva); Pontic interactions: the cult of Sabazios (A. Fol); Notizen zur griechischen Kolonisation am westlichen Schwarzen Meer (M. Lazarov); Apollonia Pontica: Recent discoveries in the Necropolis (K. Panayotova); Zum beginn der romischen Kontrolle der griechischen Stadte an der Westkuste des Pontos Euxeinos (A. Avram); Megaran colonisation in the Western half of the Black Sea (J. Hind); The Greek colonisation of the Black Sea region in the light of private lead letters (Y. Vinogradov); Ionia and the North Pontic Area: Archaic metalworking (M. Treister); Olbia and Berezan: the early pottery (J. Boardman); Archaic Berezan: Historical-archaeological essay (S. Solovev); The foundation of Tauric Chersonesus (S. Y. Saprykin); Greek Colonisation of the Bosporus (G. A. Koshelenko and V. D. Kuznetsov); The Achaeans and the Heniochi: reflections on the origins and history of a Greek rhetorical topos (D. Asheri); Writing and re-inventing colonial origins (D. Braund); Die Grundung von Sinope und die Probleme der Anfangsphase der griechischen Kolonisation des Schwarzmeergebietes (A. L. Ivantchik).Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. is the author of 'The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area (Historia - Einzelschriften)', published 1998 under ISBN 9783515073028 and ISBN 3515073027.