Culture et mobilité dans le Pont-Euxin : approche régionale de la vie culturelle des cités grecques

This book aims to fill a gap in both fields of cultural history in Antiquity and Black Sea studies. Thus, it focuses its attention on two marginal aspects: on the one hand, on the cultural life, since little attention is generally given to cultural life in monographs on this region, and particularly those concerning the Euxine Pontus; on the other hand, on the Black Sea region, because its position is geographically and symbolically peripheral in the Greek world. One of the main goals is to put this remote location back into the Mediterranean space and, at the same time, emphasise its peculiarities. We observed the relationship between the Pontic Greeks and the Others – the “barbarians”, but also strangers, whether of Pontic origins or of more removed ones. On this latter aspect, the book promotes the concept of “cultural mobility”, which might find its place among network studies, from the Classical era until Late Antiquity. Pontics shared a common culture which is a vivid example of regional Hellenism.