Society and State Organization of the Thracians in the context of the Palaeo-Balkan and Western Asia Minor Community (Mid-2nd — Early 1st Millennium B.C.). Second edition (1998)
Language: Bulgarian with a summary in English
Category: Ancient Thrace

Table of contents (summary)

INTRODUCTION

1. The Object

2. The Methods

3. The Terms

Chapter 1. EARLY REPORTS ABOUT THE THRACIANS

Thracian names from Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece in the Linear A and Linear B texts

2. Thracian names in Egyptian and Hittite documents

3. The Thracian-Trojan maritime alliance and the Trojan War in the Homeric epic works

Chapter 2. WHAT IS THRCIAN IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AND NORDWESTERN/WESTERN ASIA MINOR in the light of Indo-European and Palaeo-Balkan studies

1. Indo-European studies and the Thracian onomastic language

2. Paleo-Balkan languages – Paleo-Balkan-West Asia Minor community

Chapter 3. ARES VERSUS HERMES (population shifts, piracy, robbery and trade in the Achaean-Hellenic and Pelasgo-Thracian ethnocultural communities treated in ancient literature)

1. Movements of ethnic groups

1.1. Achaean-Hellenic ethnocultural community

1.2. Pelasgo-Thracian ethnocultural community

1.3. Movements of ethnic groups in Southeast Europe and Western Asia Minor until the end of the 1st millennium BC

2. Piracy-robbery or trade

2.1. Achaean-Hellenic ethnocultural community

2.2. Pelasgo-Thraco-Trojan ethnocultural community

3. Stationing in the XIII-VIII centuries BC – road to Hellenization of mobile societies from South-East Europe and North-West-West Asia Minor

Chapter 4. MOBILITY and STATIONARITY (the communities from the Circum-Aegean area viewed throught the archaeology of Thrace, Troas and Hellas)

1. Means of movement

1.1. Means of movement by sea

1.1.1. The ships of Thrace Pontica

1.1.2. Thrace Pontica and the ports in Homer‘s epic works

1.2. Land vehicles

1.2.1. Car

1.2.2. Cargo and riding animals

2. Settlements and dwellings

2.1. Settlements

2.2. Housing

3. Necropolises

3.1. Southeastern Europe – Thrace and Hellas

3.2. Northwest Asia Minor – Homer‘s epic works of the burial mounds in the Troas

4. Ceramics

Chapter 5. CIVILIZATION IN THRACE AND OF THE THRACIANS till the mid-first millennium B.C.

1. The economy

1.1. Agriculture

1.2. Livestock breeding

1.3. Metal mining and metal processing. Treasures

1.4. Trade exchange

2. Ownership

2.1. Comparative characteristic between Orphic/Mycenaean Thrace, Mycenaean Greece, the Hittite state and the steppe peoples of the Black Sea-Caspian region

2.2. Basic forms of property in the compared societies

3. Statehood

CONCLUSION

ENGLISH SUMMARY

ABBREVIATIONS

CITED ANCIENT AUTHORS

CITED LITERATURE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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