Examines cultural interaction, transformation and the repercussions and local reactions to Greek colonization in social, religious, economic and cultural terms in a series of case studies from around the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Foreword by Martin Millett 1. Introduction     by Carrie Ann Murray and Jason Lucas 2. Constructing colonies: Physical manifestations of social action within Greek colonization     by Carrie Ann Murray 3. Locrian Colonization in Magna Graecia: Cities and territories     by Adolfo J. Domínguez 4. Cultural and ethnic dynamics in Sicily during Greek colonization     by Sebastiano Tusa 5. Marseilles: Greek settlement on the fringes of Iron Age Provence     by Jason Lucas 6. The Attic red-figure pottery of the Greek city of Emporion     by M. Teresa Miró i Alaix 7. Pistiros: A Thracian emporion in its cultural and natural environment     by Alexei Gotzev 8. The landscape in Aegean Thrace before and after Greek colonization     by Diamandis Triandaphyllos 9. Orgame necropolis in the Black Sea area      by Vasilica Lungu 10. Transformations of landscape use in the Lower Dnieper region      by Valeria Bylkova 11. Borysthenes and Olbia: Reflections on the character of contacts between Greeks and Natives during the initial stage of colonization      by Sergey Solovyov 12. Polis, Chora and the development of the colonial landscape in the Lower Bug region      by Sergej Bujskikh and Alla Bujskikh 13. Colonial landscapes and colonial interactions in Skythia and the Euxeinos Pontos      by Elias Petropoulos 14. Colonial location: Olbia on the Hypanis       by David Braund 15. ‘Greek’ Colonization: The view from Ionia       by Alan M. Greaves