Olbia in the Roman empire: some observations on Neronian evidence

• Дата: 2015
• Автор: Braund, D.
• Формат: Стаття
• Мова: English
• Опубліковано: Інститут археології НАН України 2015
• Назва видання: Археологія і давня історія України
• Теми: Ольвія
• Онлайн доступ: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/161086
• Назва журналу: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Цитувати: Olbia in the Roman empire: some observations on Neronian evidence / D. Braund // Археологія і давня історія України: Зб. наук. пр. — К.: ІА НАН України, 2015. — Вип. 1 (14). — С. 131-136. — Бібліогр.: 10 назв. — англ.

This paper addresses a theme that was central to the work of Valentina Krapivina, namely the Roman period in Olbia and around the Black Sea in general. As Rostovtzeff observed long ago, and as Valentina and others have often insisted, Olbia is special in many ways, but we cannot hope to understand Roman Olbia without engaging seriously also with the larger issue of the Black Sea under Rome, Roman concerns there and indeed Olbians’ dealings with the region and with the imperial power alike.1 These are enormous themes, burdened with a great weight of modern scholarship. And these are also themes upon which I have written elsewhere. Here, therefore, I shall focus sharply on parts of the ancient evidence that have been claimed as important for the Neronian period. In fact, in recent years the honorand and I had begun slowly to plan a joint study of some of that evidence, but we were unable to finish that work.