Of all the areas colonised by the Greeks, the Black Sea is one of the least-known in the West, although the area is gradually opening up to Western scholarship. This volume presents the work of Western and Eastern scholars - archaeologists, historians, linguists, epigraphists - on the Black Sea. Contents: Greek colonisation of the Black Sea Area: Stages, models and native population (G. R. Tsetskhladze); Greek ideas of the north and the east (M. Vassileva); Pontic interactions: the cult of Sabazios (A. Fol); Notizen zur griechischen Kolonisation am westlichen Schwarzen Meer (M. Lazarov); Apollonia Pontica: Recent discoveries in the Necropolis (K. Panayotova); Zum beginn der romischen Kontrolle der griechischen Stadte an der Westkueste des Pontos Euxeinos (A. Avram); Megaran colonisation in the Western half of the Black Sea (J. Hind); The Greek colonisation of the Black Sea region in the light of private lead letters (Y. Vinogradov); Ionia and the North Pontic Area: Archaic metalworking (M. Treister); Olbia and Berezan: the early pottery (J. Boardman); Archaic Berezan: Historical-archaeological essay (S. Solovev); The foundation of Tauric Chersonesus (S. Y. Saprykin); Greek Colonisation of the Bosporus (G. A. Koshelenko and V. D. Kuznetsov); The Achaeans and the Heniochi: reflections on the origins and history of a Greek rhetorical topos (D. Asheri); Writing and re-inventing colonial origins (D. Braund); Die Gruendung von Sinope und die Probleme der Anfangsphase der griechischen Kolonisation des Schwarzmeergebietes (A. L. Ivantchik) .