This volume presents the proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Belgrade 17-21 September 2013). The theme of the congress included archaeological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, geographical and other investigations across the huge area and different regions through which the Argonauts passed in seeking to return from Colchis: from the eastern shore of the Black Sea and the mouth of the Danube to the Adriatic. Sixty-four papers in English, French and German are divided under the following headings: The Black Sea Greek Colonies and their...

The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea presents the Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John Boardman, President of the Congress since its inception. It was held in Constanta in September 2017 with the same theme as the first of these congresses, which took place just down the coast in Varna 20 years earlier ('the Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea and the importance of the Pontic region for the Graeco-Roman world between the 7th century BC and 5th century AD'), celebrating the work of successive congresses in...