Scythians and Greeks Cultural Interaction in Scythia, Athens and the Early Roman Empire (Sixth Century BC to First Century AD)

by Braund, David

• ISBN13: 9780859897464
• ISBN10: 085989746X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-23
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

This title has been reprinted.

Author Biography

David Braund is Professor of Ancient History, University of Exeter. His particular specialism lies in the Black Sea region, especially Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and he speaks Russian and Georgian fluently. His books include The Administration of the Roman Empire (Exeter, 1988); Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Transcaucasian Georgia, 550 BC-AD 562 (Oxford, 1994); Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Caesar to Agricola (Routledge, 1996).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Map of the Black Sea Region	xii
Introduction	1	(12)
David Braund
E.H. Minns and M.I. Rostovtzeff: Glimpses of a Scythian Friendship	13	(20)
Gregory Bongard-Levin
Key Points in Scythian History	33	(6)
V. Yu. Murzin
Scythian Kings and `Royal' Burial-Mounds of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC	39	(17)
A. Yu. Alekseyev
Masters and Workshops of the Jewellery and Toreutics from Fourth-Century Scythian Burial-Mounds	56	(8)
Mikhail Treister
Snake-Limbed and Tendril-Limbed Goddesses in the Art and Mythology of the Mediterranean and Black Sea	64	(16)
Yulia Ustinova
Pericles, Cleon and the Pontus: The Black Sea in Athens c. 440--421	80	(20)
David Braund
Who were the `Scythian' Archers on Archaic Attic Vases?	100	(14)
A.I. Ivanchik
Bobbies or Boobies? The Scythian Police Force in Classical Athens	114	(9)
Balbina Babler
Olbia and the Scythians in the Fifth Century BC: The Scythian `Protectorate'	123	(8)
S.D. Kryzhitskiy
The Lower Dnieper Region as an Area of Greek/Barbarian Interaction	131	(17)
Valeria Bylkova
The Civic Frontiers of Tauric Chersonesus in the Fourth Century BC	148	(5)
M.I. Zolotaryov
The Development of Graeco-Barbarian Contacts in the Chora of the European Bosporus (sixth -- first centuries)	153	(14)
A.A. Maslennikov
Thrace and the Bosporus under the Early Roman Emperors	167	(9)
Sergey Saprykin
The Crimean Campaign of Tiberius Plautius Silvanus	176	(5)
V.M. Zubar
Notes	181	(38)
Bibliography of Works Cited	219	(32)
Index	251