Environment and Habitation around the Ancient Black Sea

David Braund, Vladimir F. Stolba, Ulrike Peter, David Braund, Vladimir F. Stolba, Ulrike Peter

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9783110715705
• eBook ISBN: 9783110715972
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History of Ancient Art
• Index: History

Environment and human habitation have become principal topics of research with the growing interest in the Black Sea region in antiquity. This book highlights their interaction around all the coasts of the region, from different perspectives and disciplines. Here, archaeological excavation and survey combine with studies of classical texts, cults, medicine, and more, to explore ancient experiences of the region. Accordingly, the region is examined from external viewpoints, centred in the Mediterranean (Herodotus, the Hippocratics, ancient geographers, and poets), and through local lenses, particularly supplied by archaeology. While familiar disconnects emerge, there is also a striking coherence in the results of these different pathways into the study of local environments, which embrace not only Graeco-Roman settlement, but also a broader range of agricultural and pastoralist activities across a huge landscape which stretches as far afield as ancient Hungary. Throughout, there are methodological implications for research elsewhere in the ancient world. This book shows people in landscapes across a huge expanse, in local reality and in external conceptions, complete with their own agency, ideas, and lifestyles.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Black Sea Environments
• Late Archaic and Early Classical Monumental Architecture on the Island of St. Kirik, Apollonia Pontike
• Cremations in the Necropolis of Apollonia Pontike: Patterns of Distribution in Space and Time
• Spatial Developments in the Necropolis of Apollonia Pontike, 5th to 3rd Centuries BC
• The River System of North-Eastern Thrace as a Medium in Economic Relations in Classical and Hellenistic Times
• Colonising the Southern Sectors of the Danubian Delta: the Settlement of Caraburun-Acic Suat
• Local Traits in the Iconography of Gordian III and Philip the Arab’s Coinage Produced in Thrace and Lower Moesia
• Sarmatae and Sarmatia: From the North Pontic Area to the Great Hungarian Plain
• Heracles’ Footprint by the River Tyras: Immortality and Acculturation on the Geto-Scythian Frontier
• Perception of Diversity and Exploration of the Environment: Greeks and Scythians in the Archaic Period
• Environment, Biodiversity and Ethnicity in the Black Sea Region: Evidence from the ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus
• Racing for Love: Achilles and Iphigenia in the Black Sea
• Archaeological Surveys and Replicability of their Results: A Case Study from West Crimea
• Another Perspective on the Black Sea: The Landscapes and Regionality of Hellenistic Cyprus
• Hinterland as a Macroeconomic Factor in the Milesian Colonisation of the Northern Black Sea Area (the Case of the Twin Cities of Borysthenes–Olbia)
• Colonisation and Landscape Transformation: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Cimmerian Bosporus Region
• The Female Burial at Karagodeuashkh
• Gyenos: Reflections on Etymology in Colchis and Tales of Argonauts and Giants
• A Few Remarks on the Naukleroi of the Cities on the Southern Shore of the Black Sea during the Imperial Period
• Cults in Ancient Sinope: Originality and Standardisation
• Contributors
• Index of Names (People, Places etc.)
• Index Locorum