Beschreibung:
Christopher Tuplin, D.Phil. (1982) in "Literae Humaniores" is Reader in Ancient History at Liverpool University. He is the author of "Failings of Empire" (Steiner, 1993), "Achaemenid Studies" (Steiner, 1996) and over fifty papers on Achaemenid, Greek and Roman history and literature.
This volume deploys both written (epigraphic, papyrological and literary) and archaeological (pottery, metalwork) evidence to cast new light on the economic, cultural and political contacts between Pontus and the Mediterranean world in the archaic, classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.