Preface / Edith Hall -- Approaches. Introduction: Embarking on a voyage around Black Sea theatre / David Braund -- The spread of Greek theatre to the west and to the north-east / Oliver Taplin -- The northward advance of Greek horizons / Stephanie West -- Places. The tragedians of Heraclea and comedians of Sinope / Edith Hall -- The Phanagoria chous : comic art in miniature in a luxury tomb in the Cimmerian Bosporus / Jeffrey Rusten -- Theatre and performance in the Bosporan kingdom / David Braund -- Ancient theatre in Tauric Chersonesus / Sergey Saprykin -- Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea / Valeriya Bylkova -- Celebrating Dionysos in Istros and Tomis: theatrical manifestations and artistic life in two Ionian cities of the Black Sea / Madalina Dana -- Ancient theatres and theatre-art of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and Thracian hinterland / Alexander Minchev -- Plays. Space, place and the metallurgical imagination of the Prometheus Trilogy / Emmanuela Bakola -- Fragmentary Greek tragedies set in the Black Sea / Rosie Wyles -- Black Sea back story: Euripides / Edith Hall -- Mind-games in the Crimea: Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris / Felix Budelmann -- Visualising Euripides' Tauric temple of the Maiden Goddess / Edith Hall -- Performative presences. Music and performance among Greeks and Scythians / Marina Vakhtina -- A new mask and musical instruments from the eastern Bosporus / Vladimir Bochkovoy, David Braund, Roman Mimokhodov, Nikolay Sudarev -- The cult of Dionysus in ancient Georgia / Manana Odisheli -- Paratheatrical performances in the Bosporan Kingdom : the evidence of terracotta figurines / Maya Muratov -- Historiography and theatre : the tragedy of Scythian king Skyles / David Braund -- Life trajectories : Iphigenia, Helen and Achilles on the Black Sea / Froma Zeitlin -- Epilogue: Dancing around the Black Sea: Xenophon, Pseudo-Scymnus and Lucian's Bacchants / David Braund.