Companion to Ancient Thrace

Julia Valeva is Professor at the Institute for Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of The Painted Coffers of the Ostrusha Tomb (2005) and Typology of the Thracian Tombs (2013).Emil Nankov is the Archaeology Program Officer of the American Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a co-editor of Heraclea Sintica: from Hellenistic polis to Roman civitas, (4th c. BC-6th c. AD) (2014).Denver Graninger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside and faculty member of the Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics. He is the author of Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly (2011).

"Despite the enormous volume of information and the extent of the topics covered in the Companion, the individual chapters show a remarkable cohesion.... Sincere praise is due to the editors for their achivement. The Companion offers a concise but reliable and often in-depth orientation for anyone researching Thracian matters and their connections to the neighboring cultures. I would strongly recommend its purchase...." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review“...a useful and engaging guide for students and academics alike interested in aspects of ancient Thrace, and adjacent cultures.”  - Assemblage"...this volume offers comprehensive and up-to-date essays on a variety of historical and socio-cultural issues that represent mainly contemporary Bulgarian scholarship on ancient Thrace...it largely fulfils what it promises and reveals potential for furtherbridging of the methodological insufficiency clearly inferred in a great number of texts."- Ancient West and East, Volume 17, 2018

• Editors’ Preface xiNotes on Contributors xiiiAbbreviations xviPart I Thrace and Thracians 11 An Introduction to Studying Ancient Thrace 3Nikola Theodossiev2 Geography 12Jan Bouzek and Denver Graninger3 Ethnicity and Ethne 22Denver GraningerPart II History 334 Early History of Thrace to the Murder of Kotys I (360 BCE) 35Michael Zahrnt5 Thrace from the Assassination of Kotys I to Koroupedion (360–281 BCE) 48Peter Delev6 From Koroupedion to the Beginning of the Third Mithridatic War (281–73 BCE) 59Peter Delev7 Roman Thrace 75Ivaylo Lozanov8 Thrace in Late Antiquity 91Boyan DumanovPart III Evidence 1079 Settlements 109Hristo Popov10 Dolmens and Rock-Cut Monuments 126Georgi Nekhrizov11 “Ritual Pits” 144Rumyana Georgieva12 Tomb Architecture 158Daniela Stoyanova13 The Decoration of Thracian Chamber Tombs 180Julia Valeva14 Gold, Silver, and Bronze Vessels 197Julia Valeva15 Adornments 212Milena Tonkova16 The Pottery of Ancient Thrace 229Anelia Bozkova17 Inscriptions 243Dan Dana18 Introduction to the Numismatics of Thrace, ca. 530 BCE–46 CE 265Evgeni I. PaunovPart IV Influence and Interaction 29319 The Greek Colonists 295Margarit Damyanov20 Athens 308Matthew A. Sears21 Persia 320Maya Vassileva22 Thracian and Macedonian Kingship 337William S. Greenwalt23 Thracians and Scythians: Tensions, Interactions and Osmosis 352David Braund24 Celts 366Julij EmilovPart V Controversies 38325 Social Life of Thrace 385Zosia Archibald26 Urbanization 399Emil Nankov27 Trade 412Chavdar Tzochev28 Warfare 426Totko Stoyanov29 Religion 443Kostadin RabadjievIndex 457