Askold Ivantchik

• DR CNRS at Université Bordeaux Montaigne

The Greek colonization of the Northern Black Sea region was part of the larger phenomenon of Greek colonization, which, in turn, was probably the most important phenomenon in Greek history from the eighth to sixth century BCE. It resulted in Greeks settling on almost the entire coast of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea - from modern Spain in the...

Publication, introduction, commentaire, avec G.M. Bongard-Levin

A fragment of Alemán (fr. 1, 59 Page = 3, 59 Calame) mentions a horse of Colaxaïs, a personage of the Scythian epics, who is also known to other sources (Herod. IV, 5-7 ; Val. Flac. VI, 48-59). The analysis of this fragment and its comparison with the Ossetic epics and other Iranian data allow the reconstruction of some features of the Scythian epi...

dans: The Greek Colonization of the Black Sea: Historical Interpretation of Archaeology (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze)

On the basis of written sources, the region has been localized where the historical Cimmerians, but no Scythians, dwelled (west and central Anatolia). The nomad graves of this area (Norşuntepe, İmirler, environs of Amasya), which represent the archaeological evidence of the culture of the historical Cimmerians, belong to the so-called early Scythia...

in Hellenismus. Beiträge zur Erforschung von Akkulturation und politischer Ordnung in den Staaten des hellenistischen Zeitalters. Akten des Internationalen Hellenismus-Kolloquiums 9.-14. März 1994 in Berlin (Hrsg. von B. Funck. Tübingen)

Xenia Posnaniensia, XI. Wyklady Goscinne w Zakladzie Historii Starozytnej

The first part of the book is dedicated to the reconstruction of the history of the Cimmerians in the period of their presence in the Near East, including chronology. The interrelation of the Cimmerians with the Ancient Near Eastern states and peoples (Assyria, Urartu, Media, Phrygia, Lydia, etc.) are the object of study, as well as the problem of...

Quatrième Symposium international, Sozopol, 6 - 12 octobre 1988