The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area

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The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area is written by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3515073027 (ISBN 10) and 9783515073028 (ISBN 13).

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 Westkueste 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 Gruendung von Sinope und die Probleme der Anfangsphase der griechischen Kolonisation des Schwarzmeergebietes (A. L. Ivantchik) .