Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Map of the Black Sea Region
- 1. Introduction - DAVID BRAUND (University of Exeter,
England)
- 2. E.H. Minns and M.I. Rostovtzeff: Glimpses of a Scythian
Friendship - GREGORY BONGARD-LEVIN (Institute of History, Academy
of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
- 3. Key Points in Scythian History - V.YU. MURZIN (National
Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine)
- 4. Scythian Kings and ‘Royal’ Burial-Mounds of the Fifth and
Fourth Centuries BC - A.YU. ALEKSEYEV (Hermitage Museum, St
Petersburg, Russia)
- 5. Masters and Workshops of the Jewellery and Toreutics from
Fourth-Century Scythian Burial-Mounds - MIKHAIL TREISTER
(University of Bonn, Germany)
- 6. Snake-Limbed and Tendril-Limbed Goddesses in the Art and
Mythology of the Mediterranean and Black Sea - YULIA USTINOVA
(Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
- 7. Pericles, Cleon and the Pontus: The Black Sea in Athens c.
440–421 - DAVID BRAUND (University of Exeter, England)
- 8. Who were the ‘Scythian’ Archers on Archaic Attic Vases? -
A.I. IVANCHIK (University of Bordeaux/CNRS, France, and Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
- 9. Bobbies or Boobies? The Scythian Police Force in Classical
Athens - BALBINA BÄBLER (University of Hamburg, Germany, and
University of Exeter, England)
- 10. Olbia and the Scythians in the Fifth Century BC: The
Scythian ‘Protectorate’ - S.D. KRYZHITSKIY (National Academy of
Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine)
- 11. The Lower Dnieper Region as an Area of Greek/Barbarian
Interaction - VALERIA BYLKOVA (Kherson Museum, Ukraine)
- 12. The Civic Frontiers of Tauric Chersonesus in the Fourth
Century BC - M.I. ZOLOTARYOV † (Crimean branch of National Academy
of Sciences, Simferopol, Ukraine)
- 13. The Development of Graeco-Barbarian Contacts in the Chora
of the European Bosporus (sixth–first centuries) - A.A. MASLENNIKOV
(Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Russia)
- 14. Thrace and the Bosporus under the Early Roman Emperors -
SERGEY SAPRYKIN (Institute of History, Academy of
- Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
- 15. The Crimean Campaign of Tiberius Plautius Silvanus - V.M.
ZUBAR (National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine)
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
About the Author
David Braund is Professor of Ancient History, and head of the
Classics and Ancient History department at the University of
Exeter. His particular specialism lies in the Black Sea region,
especially Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and he speaks Russian and
Georgian fluently.
Reviews
The editor's brief opening essay presents extraordinary interest
with its apt and useful generalizations and conclusions touching
upon topics of both historical-archaeological as well as editorial
significance. This essay presents in summary form some of the most
important results of an effort, ... to achieve the melding of two
quite different scholarly worlds (the East, viz., Soviet and
Russian, and the West)... For this reason alone, the volume under
discussion should be welcomed, and considered essential by both
classicists as well as scholars of the ancient world more
generally... Generally speaking, the volume Scythians and Greeks is
in every respect a useful tool for approaching the basic scholarly
issues which are today occupying classical archaeology, the history
of the northern Black Sea, and the greater Circumpontic region.
This volume makes a significant contribution to the effort to make
available to an international readership both what has already been
accomplished as well as the results of ongoing research in this
region. Such synthesizing works are essential for us all,
particularly given the age in which we live.