Environment and habitation around the ancient black sea / edited by David Braund, Vladimir F. Stolba, Ulrike Peter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stolba, Vladimir F., editor.

Peter, Ulrike, editor.

Braund, David, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Historiography.

Antiquities.

Black Sea Coast--Antiquities.

Black Sea Coast.

Black Sea Coast--History.

Asia--Black Sea Coast.

Black Sea Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 383 p.) : 1 Tafel/Seite mit Münzabbildungen

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9783110715972

311071597X

OCLC:

1253313017