Description
A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world.
• Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity
• Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace
• Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources
• Integrates a study of Thrace within a broad context that includes the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe/Eurasia
• Reflects the impact of new theoretical approaches to economy, ethnicity, and cross-cultural interaction and hybridity in Ancient Thrace
Chapter
2.1 The Problem of Boundaries
2.2 The Geography of Ancient Thrace: A Sketch
2.4 Roads and Connectivity
Chapter 3 Ethnicity and Ethne
Chapter 4 Early History of Thrace to the Murder of Kotys I (360 bce)
4.2 The Persian Invasions
4.3 Delian League and Peloponnesian War
4.4 After the Peloponnesian War
Chapter 5 Thrace from the Assassination of Kotys I to Koroupedion (360–281 BCE)
5.1 Decline and Fall of the Odrysian Kingdom (360–336 BCE)
5.2 Thrace in the Age of Alexander the Great (336–323 BCE)
5.3 Thrace in the Age of the Successors (323–281 BCE)
1. On the Age of Philip and Alexander
2. On the Age of the Successors
Chapter 6 From Koroupedion to the Beginning of the Third Mithridatic War (281–73 BCE)
6.1 From Koroupedion to the Accession of Philip V in Macedonia, 281–221 BCE
6.2 From the Accession of Philip V to the Establishment of the Roman Province of Macedonia, 221–148 BCE
6.3 From the Establishment of the Roman Province of Macedonia to the Beginning of the Third Mithridatic War, 148–73 BCE
7.2 Prelude to the Provinces: Roman Thrace up to the Time of Augustus
7.3 Moesia et Thracia Provinciae
7.4 Cities: Urban Development and Civic Life
7.5 The Third-Century CE Crisis
Chapter 8 Thrace in Late Antiquity
8.1 Administrative Divisions
8.2 Christianization and Construction of Churches
8.3 Urbanism and Non-Urban Structures
9.1 Sources and State of Research
9.2 Demographic Potential and Social Structure
9.3 Settlements and Settlement System in Thrace During the Early Iron Age, ca. 11th–6th c. BCE
9.4 Settlements and Settlement System in Thrace of the Late Iron Age, 5th–1st c. BCE
Chapter 10 Dolmens and Rock-Cut Monuments
10.1 Megalithic Monuments in Thrace
10.3 Other Megalithic Monuments
10.4 Rock-Cut Megalithic Sites
11.3 Interpretation and Discussion
Chapter 12 Tomb Architecture
12.2 Problems of Chronology
12.3 The Tumulus and Access to the Tomb
12.5 Building Materials and Construction Techniques
12.6 Layouts and Entrances
12.8 Interior and Decorative Elements
Chapter 13 The Decoration of Thracian Chamber Tombs
13.3 Use of Greek Architectural Elements
13.5 The Decorative Program
Chapter 14 Gold, Silver, and Bronze Vessels
14.2 Gold and Silver Vessels
15.2 The Early Iron Age, 1200–500
15.3 The Early Classical Period, ca. 500–375
15.4 The Late Classical Period, ca. 375–325
15.5 The Early Hellenistic Period, ca. 325–250
15.6 The Middle and Late Hellenistic period, ca. 250–1
Chapter 16 The Pottery of Ancient Thrace
16.2 The Pottery of the Late Bronze Age
16.3 The Pottery of the Early Iron Age (Geometric and Archaic Age)
16.4 Late Archaic and Classical Pottery
16.5 Pottery of the Hellenistic Period
16.6 The Hand-Made Pottery of the Classical and Hellenistic Period
17.2 Inscriptions in Thracian Language
17.3 Inscriptions in Classical and Hellenistic Thrace
17.4 Inscriptions in Roman Thrace
17.5 Inscriptions in Late Antique Thrace
Chapter 18 Introduction to the Numismatics of Thrace, ca. 530 BCE–46 CE
18.3 Numismatic History of Thrace
18.4 Thracian Coinage: Royal and Tribal
Part IV Influence and Interaction
Chapter 19 The Greek Colonists
19.2 Preliminary Considerations
20.3 Military Influence of Thrace
20.4 Athenian Attitudes to Thrace and the Thracians
20.5 Athenian Thracophiles
21.2 The Achaemenid Impact
Chapter 22 Thracian and Macedonian Kingship
22.1 Political Structures
22.2 Coin Evidence for the King as Hero
22.3 Herodotus and the Foundation of the Argead Dynasty
22.4 Ideology and Religion
22.5 The Royal Hunt as Ideology
Chapter 23 Thracians and Scythians: Tensions, Interactions and Osmosis
23.1 Introductory Remarks: Framing Issues, Considering the Evidence
23.3 Scyles’ Story: Spanning Scythia and Thrace
24.2 Early Long-Range Contacts Along the Danube – Visible and Invisible
24.4 Politics of “Danegeld” in Hellenistic Thrace
24.5 Hellenization and Latenization – Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Chapter 25 Social Life of Thrace
25.1 Literary Sources on Ancient Thracian Society
25.2 Theories about Thracian Society
25.3 Current Trends in Scholarship
26.6 Tyrseis and Country Estates
27.1 Early Iron Age Contacts
27.2 Colonization and Trade
28.3 Cavalry: Weaponry and Equipment
28.5 Fortified Settlements, Fortresses, and Structures
28.6 Organization, Strategy, and Tactics
29.2 Pantheon and Priests
29.3 Ritual Space and Practice
A Companion to Ancient Thrace
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