Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Karkinitis and the Bay of Karkinitis: towards an Evaluation of the Classical Literary Tradition

Karkinitis and the Bay of Karkinitis: towards an Evaluation of the Classical Literary Tradition KARKINITIS AND THE BAY OF KARKINITIS: TOWARDS AN EVALUATION OF THE CLASSICAL LITERARY TRADITION * VLADIMIR F. STOLBA Ancient Karkinitis ( = Kerkinitis) numbers among the group of small Greek poleis on the north coast of the Black Sea, about which unusually meagre and fragmentary information is available in the Classical literary tradition. The information can be traced back to a variety of periods: as a rule, it is of a geographical character and provides no details of the city’s history. Yet even the few geographical details we have do not always provide us with a clear picture of the topography and hydrography of the area concerned. Attempts undertaken as far back as the 19 th century to locate Karkinitis on the basis of these meagre and, at first glance, contradictory data have given rise to considerable confusion. The existence of several variants of the toponym and also varying interpretations of the geographical landmarks cited in the sources have led scholars to look for two different cities with one and the same name: the first within the Crimea in the vicinity of modern Eupatoria ( Κερκιν ιτις , Κορον ιτις ) and the second beyond the isthmus of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia Brill

Karkinitis and the Bay of Karkinitis: towards an Evaluation of the Classical Literary Tradition

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia , Volume 10 (1-2): 47 – Jan 1, 2004

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/karkinitis-and-the-bay-of-karkinitis-towards-an-evaluation-of-the-aUm3wf7Qws

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0929-077X
eISSN
1570-0577
DOI
10.1163/1570057041963976
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

KARKINITIS AND THE BAY OF KARKINITIS: TOWARDS AN EVALUATION OF THE CLASSICAL LITERARY TRADITION * VLADIMIR F. STOLBA Ancient Karkinitis ( = Kerkinitis) numbers among the group of small Greek poleis on the north coast of the Black Sea, about which unusually meagre and fragmentary information is available in the Classical literary tradition. The information can be traced back to a variety of periods: as a rule, it is of a geographical character and provides no details of the city’s history. Yet even the few geographical details we have do not always provide us with a clear picture of the topography and hydrography of the area concerned. Attempts undertaken as far back as the 19 th century to locate Karkinitis on the basis of these meagre and, at first glance, contradictory data have given rise to considerable confusion. The existence of several variants of the toponym and also varying interpretations of the geographical landmarks cited in the sources have led scholars to look for two different cities with one and the same name: the first within the Crimea in the vicinity of modern Eupatoria ( Κερκιν ιτις , Κορον ιτις ) and the second beyond the isthmus of

Journal

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to SiberiaBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

There are no references for this article.