Meetings of cultures in the Black Sea Region : between conflict and coexistence / edited by Pia Guldager Bilde and Jane Hjarl Petersen.

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Front Matter; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Bibliography; Rhythms of Eurasia and the Main Historical Stages of the Kimmerian Bosporos in Pre-Roman Times; Stage 1. Settling the region (600-480 BC); Stage 2. The rule of the Archaianaktids (480/79-438/7 BC); Stage 3. The early rule of the Spartokids and the Golden Age of Bosporos and Scythia (438/7-c. 300 BC); Stage 4. A time of crisis (first half of the 3rd century BC); Stage 5. A Bosporan renaissance (c. 250-c. 150 BC); Stage 6. A new period of instability (mid- to late 2nd century BC).

Stage 7. Bosporos under Pontic influence (late 2nd century-63 BC)Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Some reflections on eschatological currents, Diasporic experience, and group identity in the northwestern Black Sea region; Eschatological thinking in the Black Sea region and beyond; Eschatological thinking as expression of diasporic consciousness?; Diaspora models; Diaspora and pagan Antiquity?; Diaspora and religious responses; Culture change through hybridization?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

Phalerae of Horse Harnesses in Votive Depositions of the 2nd-1st Century BC in the North Pontic Region and the Sarmatian ParadigmResearch history; Two groups of phalerae; "Sarmatians", "Sarmatian culture", and the "Sarmatian Paradigm"; Rostovcev and the Sarmatians; P. Rau and his followers; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Conflict or Coexistence? Remarks on Indigenous Settlement and Greek Colonization in the Foothills and Hinterland of the Sibaritide (Northern Calabria, Italy); Meeting of cultures East and West: an introduction; Aim and content of paper.

Settling in the margins of Oinotrian societyMeeting of cultures in the sanctuary on Timpone Motta; Meeting of cultures, the Iron Age and Archaic settlement of Timpone Motta; What can landscape archaeology add?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; The Chora Formation of the Greek Cities of Aegean Thrace. Towards a Chronological Approach to the Colonization Process; Greek colonization in context: Aegean Thrace before the arrival of the first Greek settlers; The development of the early Iron Age settlement pattern; The cultural diversity of the Aegean Thracian societies.

The controversial question of pre-colonial contactsThe late Bronze Age commercial networks; The Geometric and Archaic period: the doubtful identification of the traders; The early phase of colonization and the installation of the colonists: an unexpected complexity; The question of the territory and the first stage of its formation; The classical period and the expansion of the city-state; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Abbreviations; A Kolchian and Greek Settlement: Excavations at Pičvnari 1967 to 2005; The settlement; The Kolchian cemetery; The "Greek" necropolis.

Necropolis of the 4th century AD.

Meetings of cultures arouse strong feelings. In this volume, nineteen scholars from Denmark, France, Georgia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and Ukraine present a profound discussion covering various topics from the physical arena of the colonial encounters, to the layout of land and protection of cities, to the dynamics of the cultural exchange, to the perception of how it was to be Greek in the Pontic realm, and finally, to be reciprocal strategies exerted by the Greeks and Scythians in the Olbia as described in Herodotos's Skythian Tale. Through the many-sided contributions it is r.

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