Guldager Bilde(P.), Højte(J.M.), Stolba(V.F.) (edd.) The Cauldron of Ariantas. Studies Presented to A.N. Ščeglov on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. (Black Sea Studies 1.) Pp. 397, ills, maps. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2003. Cased. ISBN: 87-7934-085-7

ISBN: 87-7934-085-7. doi:10.1017/S0009840X06002460 This handsome book, the rst volume of Black Sea Studies, published by the Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Black Sea Studies (based at Aarhus University), is dedicated to A.N. eglov, one of the leading Russo-Soviet classical archaeologists, in celebration of his seventieth birthday. First of all, painters need not have been slaves; and it can often be misleading to attribute ethnicity to a person based on their ethnic name (see, for example, G.R. Tsetskhladze, Zu den kolchischen Sklaven in der griechischen Welt, Klio 2(1) [1990], 1519). S.D. Kryickij once again raises the question of how to achieve a common approach to the reconstruction of Greek architectural remains from northern Black Sea colonies; D. Braund discusses the reliability of the orations of Aischines and Demosthenes for the study of relations between the Bosporan kings and Athens in the fourth century b.c. In doing so, he touches upon the grain trade, but his bibliography is sparse and covers inadequately the variety and complexity of views expressed on this important topic (see, for instance, A.G. Keen, Grain for Athens: the importance of the Hellespontine route in Athenian foreign policy before the Peloponnesian War, in G.J. Oliver, R. Brock, T.J. Cornell and S. Hodkinson (edd.), The Sea in Antiquity [Oxford, 2000], pp. 6374, for a fuller bibliography). According to S.J. Monachov, I.B. Zeests so-called proto-Thasian amphorae were produced in the manufacturing centres of the Thracian Aegean coast.