Pontus and the Outside World: Studies in Black Sea History, Historiography, and Archaeology (Colloquia Pontica Colloquia Pontica) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004121544 ISBN 13: 9789004121546

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This volume presents ten papers on the Greek and non-Greek world of the Black Sea in the archaic, classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Five papers broach literary and historical topics. Four investigate material in Greek writers (Alcman, Aristeas of Proconnesus, Herodotus and Lucian) connected with Scythia and the North, while the fifth deals with the Bosporan Kingdom. Mediterranean Greek contact with, and reception of, the Pontic world play a significant role throughout. The other five papers concern pottery and metalwork (vessels and "phalerae") from Colchis, the North Black Sea and elsewhere. Some new material for the West is published (from Vani and Picvnari) but light is also cast on familiar objects (Sarmatian gold vessels) and iconography (Amazonomachies). Contact between the Aegean and Pontus is again a recurrent theme.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Tuplin, D.Phil. (1982) in "Literae Humaniores" is Reader in Ancient History at Liverpool University. He is the author of "Failings of Empire" (Steiner, 1993), "Achaemenid Studies" (Steiner, 1996) and over fifty papers on Achaemenid, Greek and Roman history and literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9004121544
• ISBN 13: 9789004121546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Tuplin Reader In Ancient History C J, Tuplin Christopher