What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials or merchants? What were the mutual influences between native and colonial cultures? This collection addresses these questions and many more, focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman East.

Introduction ; Part 1: Territories and colonial settlements ; Hellenistic colonization and local culture in Commagene and Northern Cyrrhestice – Margherita Facella ; The territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia after the Greek colonization and some remarks on Nikaia in Bithynia and Apollonia in Pisidia: the evidence from archaeological surveys and satellite remote sensing – Giuseppe Scardozzi ; On The Treaty of Apamea. The territorial clause – Adrian Dumitru ; The nature of Attalid katoikiai (188-133 BC) – Nicholas Sekunda ; Les Thraces et Lyciens en Phrygie Parorée aux époques hellénistique et romaine – Hadrien Bru ; Part 2: Economics and imperial domination ; The introduction of Hellenic cults in Seleukid Syria: colonial appropriation and transcultural exchange in the creation of an Imperial landscape – Rolf Strootman ; Les relations entre les Thraces et les cités grecques de la mer Noire : conflits, alliances, transferts institutionnels – Adrian Robu ; Late cistophoric production during the Mithridatic Wars: a comparison between the mints of Ephesus and Tralles – Lucia Francesca Carbone ; Regional currencies within an empire. Bronze coinages of Greece and Asia at the time of the Roman conquest: a case of partial monetary convergence – Gilles Bransbourg ; Part 3: Indigenous cultures and colonial contacts ; Decolonizing the Indo-Greeks – Richard Wenghofer ; Entre perte d’autonomie, acculturation et intégration : les incolae de la colonie romaine de Dion – Julien Demaille ; Paus. X. 23. 14 on the Galatians’ Passage to Asia: lost in translation – Oleg Gabelko ; Les chrétiens d’Asie Mineure et l’évangélisation du Barbaricum danubien (IIIe-IVe siècles). Des relations assez mal connues – Attila Jakab ; Part 4: Forms of military presence ; Soldiers and Hellenism: recruitment in the Hellenistic militaries – D.J. Houle ; Germanicus, Trajan, and the date of Annals 1-6 – Katherine Low ; Two military camps on the Roman Limes: Dura-Europos and Novae (an example of Roman Imperial propaganda through official state religion) – Oleg Alexandrov ; The political propaganda of the cities of Thrace and the Asianic provinces. Some aspects of interactions (A preliminary study) – Ivo Topalilov ; Indices ; Geographical index ; Index of personal names ; Cultural, historical, geographical and political communities ; Deities