Heracles’ Footprint by the River Tyras: Immortality and Acculturation on the Geto-Scythian Frontier

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Introduction: Black Sea Environments 1
5. Late Archaic and Early Classical Monumental Architecture on the Island of St. Kirik, Apollonia Pontike 7
6. Cremations in the Necropolis of Apollonia Pontike: Patterns of Distribution in Space and Time 39
7. Spatial Developments in the Necropolis of Apollonia Pontike, 5th to 3rd Centuries BC 57
8. The River System of North-Eastern Thrace as a Medium in Economic Relations in Classical and Hellenistic Times 77
9. Colonising the Southern Sectors of the Danubian Delta: the Settlement of Caraburun-Acic Suat 91
10. Local Traits in the Iconography of Gordian III and Philip the Arab’s Coinage Produced in Thrace and Lower Moesia 121
11. Sarmatae and Sarmatia: From the North Pontic Area to the Great Hungarian Plain 157
12. Heracles’ Footprint by the River Tyras: Immortality and Acculturation on the Geto-Scythian Frontier 177
13. Perception of Diversity and Exploration of the Environment: Greeks and Scythians in the Archaic Period 195
14. Environment, Biodiversity and Ethnicity in the Black Sea Region: Evidence from the ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus 213
15. Racing for Love: Achilles and Iphigenia in the Black Sea 225
16. Archaeological Surveys and Replicability of their Results: A Case Study from West Crimea 235
17. Another Perspective on the Black Sea: The Landscapes and Regionality of Hellenistic Cyprus 255
18. Hinterland as a Macroeconomic Factor in the Milesian Colonisation of the Northern Black Sea Area (the Case of the Twin Cities of Borysthenes–Olbia) 269
19. Colonisation and Landscape Transformation: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Cimmerian Bosporus Region 281
20. The Female Burial at Karagodeuashkh 305
21. Gyenos: Reflections on Etymology in Colchis and Tales of Argonauts and Giants 321
22. A Few Remarks on the Naukleroi of the Cities on the Southern Shore of the Black Sea during the Imperial Period 335
23. Cults in Ancient Sinope: Originality and Standardisation 345
24. Contributors 359
25. Index of Names (People, Places etc.) 361
26. Index Locorum 375