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Greek Colonisation

The Greeks Beyond the Aegean: From Marseilles to Bactria
edited by Vassos Karageorghis
There are some phenomena in the history of the world, which have left an everlasting impact on the development of civilization, beneficial or otherwise. Today, when we say the words democracy, philosophy, ideology, theatre, music, we recall one of the above phenomena, the Greek heritage of Europe and the whole world. In the realm of philosophical thought, science, literature, art and architecture the Greeks have left their mark. Greek heritage, ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £16.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Panskoye I: Archaeological Investigations in Western Crimea
edited by Lise Hannestad, Alexander Sceglov and Vladimir Stolba
The Tarkhankut Expedition launched in 1959 aimed to study the expansion of Chersonesos Greeks and Crimean Scythians to the west coast of the Crimea in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC and the resulting construction of opposing fortresses. This first volume in the published reports on the fortress of Panskoye, a rural settlement in northwest Crimea, looks at the history and archaeology of the monumental building U6 built c.320-310BC. Consisting of ...
Hardback. Price GB £37.95

The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersonesos and Metaponto: 2004 Annual Report
Carter, Joseph Coleman
This is the 2004 edition of the ICA's annual report. ICA's research focuses primarily on the chorai, or agricultural territories, that surrounded and supported ancient Greek colonial cities. Their two primary sites of research are the chora of Metaponto on the southern coast of Italy and the chora of Chersonesos on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Crimea, Ukraine. Both settings offer remarkably well-preserved ancient rural ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.00

A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
by Irad Malkin
Ancient Greek civilization emerged just when the Greeks were splitting apart from each other, settling on shores as far away from the Greek mainland as the Black Sea and the Iberian Peninsula. This was a diaspora without a homeland, since there was no established Greek empire or Greek centre that directed the creation of these hundreds of communities. In this new study, Irad Malkin applied concepts from contemporary network theory to offer an ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

Children of Achilles: The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy
by John Freely
This popular narrative traces the fortunes of the Greeks in Ionia, from the Trojan War, through archaic colonisation, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, and life under Rome, Byzantium, and Seljuk, then Ottoman domination, ending with the population transfer of 1923. A lot of ground is covered in the book's pages, but too often this means that the text becomes essentially a potted history of wider political events (the Byzantine section, in ...
Hardback. Price GB £22.50

Syracuse, City of Legends
by Jeremy Dummett
Part travel guide, part history, this well-written book tells the eventful story of Syracuse in Sicily, one of the greatest of all the Greek colonies, and describes its monuments as they appear to the modern visitor. In a vivid style Dummett takes the reader from the foundation of the city and its first great tyrants, Gelon and Hiero I, to the drammatic sieges at the hands of Athens and Rome, further invasions by Byzantines and Arabs, and a much ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

The Cities of Pamphylia
by John D Grainger
Pamphylia, in modern Turkey, was a Greek country from the early Iron Age until the Middle Ages. In that land there were nine cities which can be described more or less as Greek, and this book is an investigation of their history. This was a land at the margins of other great empires - Hellenistic, Roman, Arab and Byzantine - and is still off the beaten track, though Aspendos, Perge and Phaselis are all visited for their archaeology. Only one ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £30.00, Our Price GB £6.95

Naxos di Sicilia: L'abito coloniale e l'arsenale navale, Scavi 2003-2006
edited by Maria Costanza Lentini
Well illustrated preliminary reports on four seasons of excavations at two sites at Naxos in Sicily. The first on the Schiso Peninsula is an urban area of the ancient colony of Naxos inhabited from the 8th-5th centuries, the second the colony's fifth century dockyard. As well as the stratigraphy specialist chapters cover architectural decoration, ostraca and graffiti, offer a reconstruction of the slipways at the dockyard, and discuss the ...
Paperback. Price GB £55.00

Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics
edited by Elaine Matthews
This volume, edited by the Director of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project, shows how the study of personal names can illuminate wider questions of identity and social integration. Essays look both at Greece and at the 'New world' of Asia Minor, and focus first and foremost on the effects of contact with other cultures on naming practices. Essays look at the influence of Egypts, Persians, Thracians, and Jewish communities. 241p ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

The Gravestones of Chersonesos: Research and Conservation
edited by J C Carter
This book, published in conjunction with the opening of the Packard Laboratory at the archaeological site of Chersonesos (near Sevastopol, Ukraine), documents the unique Greek and Roman painted gravestones found there. It includes a brief history of the site, a discussion of the gravestones, their manufacture and cultural significance, methods of study, and conservation. The book served as a catalog for the exhibition of the gravestones which ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99