A Companion to Ancient Thrace

ISBN-13: 9781119016182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str.

Spis treści

Editors' Preface xiNotes on Contributors xiiiAbbreviations xviPart I Thrace and Thracians 11 An Introduction to Studying Ancient Thrace 3Nikola Theodossiev2 Geography 12Jan Bouzek and Denver Graninger3 Ethnicity and Ethne 22Denver GraningerPart II History 334 Early History of Thrace to the Murder of Kotys I (360 BCE) 35Michael Zahrnt5 Thrace from the Assassination of Kotys I to Koroupedion (360-281 BCE) 48Peter Delev6 From Koroupedion to the Beginning of the Third Mithridatic War (281-73 BCE) 59Peter Delev7 Roman Thrace 75Ivaylo Lozanov8 Thrace in Late Antiquity 91Boyan DumanovPart III Evidence 1079 Settlements 109Hristo Popov10 Dolmens and Rock-Cut Monuments 126Georgi Nekhrizov11 "Ritual Pits" 144Rumyana Georgieva12 Tomb Architecture 158Daniela Stoyanova13 The Decoration of Thracian Chamber Tombs 180Julia Valeva14 Gold, Silver, and Bronze Vessels 197Julia Valeva15 Adornments 212Milena Tonkova16 The Pottery of Ancient Thrace 229Anelia Bozkova17 Inscriptions 243Dan Dana18 Introduction to the Numismatics of Thrace, ca. 530 BCE-46 CE 265Evgeni I. PaunovPart IV Influence and Interaction 29319 The Greek Colonists 295Margarit Damyanov20 Athens 308Matthew A. Sears21 Persia 320Maya Vassileva22 Thracian and Macedonian Kingship 337William S. Greenwalt23 Thracians and Scythians: Tensions, Interactions and Osmosis 352David Braund24 Celts 366Julij EmilovPart V Controversies 38325 Social Life of Thrace 385Zosia Archibald26 Urbanization 399Emil Nankov27 Trade 412Chavdar Tzochev28 Warfare 426Totko Stoyanov29 Religion 443Kostadin RabadjievIndex 457

O autorze

THE EDITORSJulia Valeva is Professor at the Institute for Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of The Painted Coffers of the Ostrusha Tomb (2005), Typology of the Thracian Tombs (2013), and co-author of Early Christianity in Contexts (2014).Emil Nankov is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Archaeology with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He was Archaeology Program Officer (2009-2014) and Acting Academic Director (2014-2017) of the American Research Center in Sofia. He has an MA in Classical archaeology from Sofia University (1999) and a PhD in art history and archaeology from Cornell University (2009). His main scholarly interests focus on urbanization and warfare in the Hellenistic period. He has published articles on the archaeology and history of ancient Thrace. He is the editor of Sandanski and Its Territory during Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages. Current Trends in Archaeological Research. Proceedings of an International Conference at Sandanski, September 17-20, 2015. Papers of the American Research Center in Sofia, vol. 3, (Veliko Tarnovo: Faber Publishers, 2017).Denver Graninger is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside and faculty member of the Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics. He is the author of Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly (2011).