title: Antiquity
abstract: Our sources for the ancient Black Sea are characterized by great unevennessa nd patchiness,a si su sual in the studyo fa ncient history in general.Our written texts are overwhelmingly the creations of Greek culture, not onlyfor the Greek and Byzantine periods, but also for the Roman empire, when the imperial Greek cultureo ft he eastern Roman empire embraced alsot he BlackS ea world.In consequence our view of the region throughout antiquity tends to be dominated by Greek concerns of different ki