Greek Colonization in Local Context takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural interaction, transformation and the repercussions and local reactions to colonization in social, religious and cultural terms. Papers examine the archaeological evidence for cultural interaction in a series of case studies from locations around the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, at a variety of scales. Contributors consider the effects of colonization on urban life and developments in cities and smaller settlements as well as in the rural landscapes surrounding and supporting them. This collection of new papers by leading scholars reveals fascinating details of the native response to the imposition of Greek rule and the indigenous input into early state development in the Mediterranean and adjacent regions.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Constructing colonies: Physical manifestations of social action within Greek colonization
• 3. Locrian colonization in Magna Graecia: Cities and territories
• 4. Cultural and ethnic dynamics in Sicily during Greek colonization
• 5. Marseilles: Greek settlement on the fringes of Iron Age Provence
• 6. The Attic red-figure pottery of the Greek city of Emporion
• 7. Pistiros: A Thracian emporion in its cultural and natural environment
• 8. The landscape in Aegean Thrace before and after Greek colonization
• 9. Orgame necropolis in the Black Sea area
• 10. Transformations of landscape use in the Lower Dnieper region
• 11. Borysthenes and Olbia: Reflections on the character of contacts between Greeks and Natives during the initial stage of colonization
• 12. Polis, Chora and the development of the colonial landscape in the Lower Bug region
• 13. Colonial landscapes and colonial interactions in Skythia and the Euxeinos Pontos
• 14. Colonial location: Olbia on the Hypanis
• 15. ‘Greek’ Colonization: The view from Ionia