A COMPANION TO ANCIENT THRACE BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises between approximately 25 and 40 concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. ANCIENT HISTORY A Companion to Ancient Epic A Companion to the Roman Army Edited by John Miles Foley Edited by Paul Erdkamp A Companion to Greek Tragedy A Companion to the Roman Republic Edited by Justina Gregory Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx A Companion to Latin Literature A Companion to the Roman Empire Edited by Stephen Harrison Edited by David S. 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Set in 9.5/11.5pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India 1 2015 Contents Editors’ Preface ix Notes on Contributors xi Abbreviations xiv 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 vi Contents 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 Contents vii 27 Trade 412 Chavdar Tzochev 28 Warfare 426 Totko Stoyanov 29 Religion 443 Kostadin Rabadjiev Index 457 Editors’ Preface Beyond the Thracian gold of itinerant museum exhibitions, the Thracian horses of Rhesos, and the wondrous Thracian logos in Herodotus’ Histories, Thrace remains marginal in Western scholarship, often open only to the sustained inquiry of a narrow group of specialists. But new discoveries achieved by intensified archaeological fieldwork and extensive application of remote sensing techniques and interdisciplinary methods, coupled with recent shifts within the modern historiography of the ancient world, have made a reappraisal of ancient Thrace desirable and necessary. A Companion to Ancient Thrace is an acknowledgement of the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the Balkan periphery of the Classical world and responds to a need to make those phenomena more accessible to a broader scholarly audience.