A Companion to Ancient Thrace (eBook)

THE EDITORS Julia 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).

Editors' Preface xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Abbreviations xvi

Part I Thrace and Thracians 1

1 An Introduction to Studying Ancient Thrace 3
Nikola Theodossiev

2 Geography 12
Jan Bouzek and Denver Graninger

3 Ethnicity and Ethne 22
Denver Graninger

Part II History 33

4 Early History of Thrace to the Murder of Kotys I (360 BCE) 35
Michael Zahrnt

5 Thrace from the Assassination of Kotys I to Koroupedion (360-281 BCE) 48
Peter Delev

6 From Koroupedion to the Beginning of the Third Mithridatic War (281-73 BCE) 59
Peter Delev

7 Roman Thrace 75
Ivaylo Lozanov

8 Thrace in Late Antiquity 91
Boyan Dumanov

Part III Evidence 107

9 Settlements 109
Hristo Popov

10 Dolmens and Rock-Cut Monuments 126
Georgi Nekhrizov

11 "Ritual Pits" 144
Rumyana Georgieva

12 Tomb Architecture 158
Daniela Stoyanova

13 The Decoration of Thracian Chamber Tombs 180
Julia Valeva

14 Gold, Silver, and Bronze Vessels 197
Julia Valeva

15 Adornments 212
Milena Tonkova

16 The Pottery of Ancient Thrace 229
Anelia Bozkova

17 Inscriptions 243
Dan Dana

18 Introduction to the Numismatics of Thrace, ca. 530 BCE-46 CE 265
Evgeni I. Paunov

Part IV Influence and Interaction 293

19 The Greek Colonists 295
Margarit Damyanov

20 Athens 308
Matthew A. Sears

21 Persia 320
Maya Vassileva

22 Thracian and Macedonian Kingship 337
William S. Greenwalt

23 Thracians and Scythians: Tensions, Interactions and Osmosis 352
David Braund

24 Celts 366
Julij Emilov

Part V Controversies 383

25 Social Life of Thrace 385
Zosia Archibald

26 Urbanization 399
Emil Nankov

27 Trade 412
Chavdar Tzochev

28 Warfare 426
Totko Stoyanov

29 Religion 443
Kostadin Rabadjiev

Index 457