David Braund is Emeritus Professor of Black Sea and Mediterranean History at the University of Exeter. He has spent many decades travelling round and researching the Black Sea region, and his publications include Georgia in antiquity (1994), Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interactions at the Periphery of the Greek World (edited; 2005), Classical Olbia and the Scythian world (co-edited; 2007) and more than one hundred papers.

• Introduction: aims, contexts and connectivity; 1. Crimean Parthenos, Artemis Tauropolos and human sacrifice; 2. Crimean Parthenos in Greece, Anatolia and the Mediterranean world; 3. Artemis of Ephesus in the Bosporan Kingdom; 4. Bosporan Isis; 5. The 'Mistress of Apatouron': Aphrodite Ourania and the Bosporan Apatouria; 6. Epilogue: Artemis, Aphrodite and Demeter.

David Braund is Emeritus Professor of Black Sea and Mediterranean History at the University of Exeter. He has spent many decades travelling round and researching the Black Sea region, and his publications include Georgia in antiquity (1994), Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interactions at the Periphery of the Greek World (edited; 2005), Classical Olbia and the Scythian world (co-edited; 2007) and more than one hundred papers.

• Introduction: aims, contexts and connectivity; 1. Crimean Parthenos, Artemis Tauropolos and human sacrifice; 2. Crimean Parthenos in Greece, Anatolia and the Mediterranean world; 3. Artemis of Ephesus in the Bosporan Kingdom; 4. Bosporan Isis; 5. The 'Mistress of Apatouron': Aphrodite Ourania and the Bosporan Apatouria; 6. Epilogue: Artemis, Aphrodite and Demeter.

David Braund is Emeritus Professor of Black Sea and Mediterranean History at the University of Exeter. He has spent many decades travelling round and researching the Black Sea region, and his publications include Georgia in antiquity (1994), Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interactions at the Periphery of the Greek World (edited; 2005), Classical Olbia and the Scythian world (co-edited; 2007) and more than one hundred papers.

• Introduction: aims, contexts and connectivity; 1. Crimean Parthenos, Artemis Tauropolos and human sacrifice; 2. Crimean Parthenos in Greece, Anatolia and the Mediterranean world; 3. Artemis of Ephesus in the Bosporan Kingdom; 4. Bosporan Isis; 5. The 'Mistress of Apatouron': Aphrodite Ourania and the Bosporan Apatouria; 6. Epilogue: Artemis, Aphrodite and Demeter.