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Year published: 2015

Greek Colonisation: New Data, Current Approaches

The publication Greek Colonisation: New Data, Current Approaches includes the proceedings of the same-titled scientific meeting hosted by the Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection in 2015. It contains papers on Greek colonisation written by Greek and foreign archaeologists and experts in numismatics. It also contains photos of the Greek colonies in Europe.

Publication details
  • Edited by: Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Dimitra Tsangari
  • Language: English
  • Year published: 2015

What the publication includes

The publication includes 13 papers on Greek colonisation written by Greek and foreign historians, archaeologists and experts in numismatics. They cover a wide range of subjects: Sicily and Southern Italy, colonies in the Black Sea, pre-Roman Pompei etc.

The publication presents new excavation data from the area of interest of each author, as well as combined approaches to the various aspects of the Greek colonisation phenomenon.

Multifaceted scientific framework

The publication Greek Colonisation: New Data, Current Approaches includes the proceedings of the scientific meeting “Greek Colonisation: New Data, Current Approaches”.

The meeting was organised by the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Numismatic Collection of Alpha Bank on 6 February 2015. This meeting was also held in the context of the exhibition “The Europe of Greece. Colonies and Coins from the Alpha Bank Collection” hosted at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki from 11 April 2014 to 18 October 2015. 15 historians and archaeologists from different countries attended the meeting.

An international publication

The papers contained in this publication were written by historians and archaeologists (directors of excavations, directors of museums, university professors) from Greece, Italy, Spain, Ukraine and Australia. They all look into the Greek colonisation phenomenon.

A wealth of material

The publication includes photos, maps and topographical plans of the Greek colonies in Europe. It also includes photos of mobile monuments, statues, vases, coins, jewellery etc. from the Greek colonies.

The publication provides a wealth of references. Although it is written entirely in English, a short synopsis of all papers is also available in Greek.

Edited by: Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Dimitra Tsangari
Publisher: Alpha Bank
Place and time: Athens, 2015
Dimensions: 30 x 21 cm
Pages: 228
Cover type: Paperback
ISBN: 978-618-5072-16-2