Ancient Greeks west and east / / edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, 196
• TeilnehmendeR: Tsetskhladze, Gocha R.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 196.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 623 pages)

This volume deals with the concept of 'West' and 'East', as held by the ancient Greeks. Cultural exchange in Archaic and Classical Greece through the establishment of Hellenic colonies around the ancient world was an important development, and always a two-way process. To achieve a proper understanding of it requires study from every angle. All 24 papers in this volume combine different types of evidence, discussing them from every perspective: they are examined not only from the point of view of the Greeks but from that of the locals. The book gives new data, as well as re-examining existing evidence and reinterpreting old theories. The book is richly illustrated.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze -- M.I. Rostovtzeff in England: a Personal Experience of West and East / G.M. Bongard-Levin -- Greek Racism? Observations on the Character and Limits of Greek Ethnic Prejudice / Christopher Tuplin -- Pomponius Mela on Colonies in West and East / J. Hind -- Between the Aegean and The Levant: the Philistines / Jacques Vanschoonwinkel -- Greeks Overseas in the 8th Century B.C.: Euboeans, Al Mina and Assyrian Imperialism / R.A. Kearsley -- The Excavated History of al Mina / John Boardman -- From East to West: The Eponymous Amazon Cleta / Luisa Moscati-Castelnuovo -- Medea in Italy: Barter and Exchange in the Archaic Mediterranean / C. J. Smith -- Euboean Colonisation in the Gulf of Naples / Bruno d'agostino -- From Death to Life. The Cemetery of Fusco and the Reconstruction of Early Colonial Society / Rune Frederiksen -- Fibulae and Females: Intermarriage in the Western Greek Colonies and the Evidence From the Cemeteries / Gillian Shepherd -- Hellenisation in Iberia?: The Reception of Greek Products and Influences by the Iberians / Adolfo J. Domínguez -- Dama de Elche: Embodying Greek-Iberian Interaction / Sara Aguilar -- Appendix to S. Aguiiar's Article / Ricardo Olmos and Trinidad Tortosa -- Erbinna, the ‘Nereid Monument’ and Xanthus / Thurstan Robinson -- ΣΥΜΒΟΛΟΝ. A Noteworthy Use for a Persian Gold Phiale / A.D.H. Bivar -- Between Greece and Persia: Rhyta in Thrace from the Late 5th to the Early Third Centuries B.C. / Susanne Ebbinghaus -- Thracian Cult - from Practice to Belief / Zofia Halina Archibald -- Between West and East: Anatolian Roots of Local Cultures of the Pontus / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze -- The Scythian ‘Rule Over Asia’: the Classical Tradition and the Historical Reality / Askold Ivantchik -- Greeks, Scythians and Hippake, or “Reading Mare’s-Cheese” / D. Braund -- Early Types of Greek Dwelling Houses in the North Black Sea / V.D. Kuznetsov -- Some Classical Subjects on the Late Hellenistic Sarmatian Phalerae (to the Origin of Phalerae) / Mikhail Treister -- The Silver Aryballos from Vani / N. Gigolashvili -- General Index / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze -- Supplements to Mnemosyne.