The first volume of a 2-volume handbook on ancient Greek colonisation, dedicated to the late Prof. A.J. Graham, gives a lengthy introduction to the problem, including methodological and theoretical issues. The chapters cover Mycenaean expansion, Phoenician and Phocaean colonisation, Greeks in the western Mediterranean, Syria, Egypt and southern Anatolia, etc. The volume is richly illustrated.

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, who has two Doctorates in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology (Moscow and Oxford), teaches Classical and Anatolian archaeology and ancient history at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek colonisation and the Black Sea region, and excavated for many years in the eastern and northern Pontus. His most recent project is the academic journal Ancient West & East, of which he is Editor-in-Chief.