Greek Colonization in Local Context: Case Studies Exploring the Dynamics Among Locals and Colonizers

Greek Colonization in Local Context takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural interaction, transformation and the repercussions and local reactions to colonization in social, religious and cultural terms. Papers examine the archaeological evidence for cultural interaction in a series of case studies from locations around the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, at a variety of scales. Contributors consider the effects of colonization on urban life and developments in cities and smaller settlements as well as in the rural landscapes surrounding and supporting them. This collection of new papers by leading scholars reveals fascinating details of the native response to the imposition of Greek rule and the indigenous input into early state development in the Mediterranean and adjacent regions.

Table of Contents

Foreword
by Martin Millett
1. Introduction
by Carrie Ann Murray and Jason Lucas
2. Constructing colonies: Physical manifestations of social action within Greek colonization
by Carrie Ann Murray
3. Locrian Colonization in Magna Graecia: Cities and territories
by Adolfo J. Domínguez
4. Cultural and ethnic dynamics in Sicily during Greek colonization
by Sebastiano Tusa
5. Marseilles: Greek settlement on the fringes of Iron Age Provence
by Jason Lucas
6. The Attic red-figure pottery of the Greek city of Emporion
by M. Teresa Miró i Alaix
7. Pistiros: A Thracian emporion in its cultural and natural environment
by Alexei Gotzev
8. The landscape in Aegean Thrace before and after Greek colonization
by Diamandis Triandaphyllos
9. Orgame necropolis in the Black Sea area
by Vasilica Lungu
10. Transformations of landscape use in the Lower Dnieper region
by Valeria Bylkova
11. Borysthenes and Olbia: Reflections on the character of contacts between Greeks and Natives during the initial stage of colonization
by Sergey Solovyov
12. Polis, Chora and the development of the colonial landscape in the Lower Bug region
by Sergej Bujskikh and Alla Bujskikh
13. Colonial landscapes and colonial interactions in Skythia and the Euxeinos Pontos
by Elias Petropoulos
14. Colonial location: Olbia on the Hypanis
by David Braund
15. ‘Greek’ Colonization: The view from Ionia
by Alan M. Greaves

Jason Lucas is an honorary Associate at the Open University where he teaches Greek and Roman archaeology. His research interests focus on cultural change in the Roman Empire, especially in the frontier provinces; spatial analysis in archaeology and humanities and geophysical and topography survey.

Carrie Ann Murray is Assistant Professor in Roman Art and Archaeology at Brock University in Canada. Her research interests focus on cultural interaction and cultural exchange in the central Mediterranean primarily during the Archaic and Republican periods.

Sarah Owen is a lecturer in the Department of Classics and Cambridge University with research interests in Greek archaeology, particularly culture contact and exchange and Greek 'colonization' and urbanism.