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Otar Lordkipanidzé, « The Greco-Roman World and Ancient Georgia (Colchis and Iberia) », Publications de l'École Française de Rome, ID : 10670/1.dx6q33
The Greco-Roman world and Ancient Georgia (Colchis and Iberia) constitute an extremely complex, vast and many-faceted problem, for it involves not only the interrelationship of differing polities and structures (felt already by the Ancient Greeks, as evidenced by their characteristic opposition of "Greek home" to "barbarian land"), but also diverse contacts that developed or occured under varying conditions — but regularly — for almost ten centuries, beginning with mid-6th century B.C. till the 3rd-4th centuries A.D. In the present paper an attempt is made to focus attention on some aspects of the interrelationships established by modern archaeology, and to determine the response of the local cultures at different stages of their contacts with the Greco-Roman civilization.