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Tractate of Petrarch called «Remedies for fortune fair and foul» consists of seven dialogues dedicated to the topic of friendship.

As the analysis of the text shows this topic is due to Petrarch’s reading of classical authors. The revelations of Italian humanist concerning friendly relationships among men are openly paralleled the ideas of Aristotle, Cicero and Seneca; and also are illustrated by citations from Roman poets.

According to M.A. Gowing, Dio’s agnomen Cocceianus was mistakenly ascribed to him by Byzantine authors, who confused the historian with Dio Chrysostom. Contrary to this point of view, the paper presents additional arguments in favour the version that Dio’s name appeared as the result of the marriage of Cassius from Nicea and the daughter of Dio Cocceanus from Prusa. Most probably, the full name of the author of “Roman History” was Lucius Claudius Cassius Dio Cocceianus.

Progrès récents de l’épigraphie amphorique grecque en Occident Après une brève historiographie du sujet, est dressé un état de la discipline vers 1980, Çest-à-dire à la veille de son renouveau. Celui-ci s’est traduit en premier lieu par la recherche et la fouille des dépotoirs de rebuts céramiques jouxtant les ateliers antiques: à Thasos, en Egypte, à Cnide, à Samothrace, à Corcyre, à Sinope, etc. On y a trouvé des images fidèles de la production des amphores et un moyen aussi de comprendre leurs systèmes de timbrage.

The article presents the results of the latest excavations in the Eastern necropolis of ancient Phanagoria. They were performed in 2005—2007 by archaeologists of the Voronezh State University, who worked as a part of the Taman archaeological expedition of Institute of archaeology of the Russian academy of sciences. In the central part of the Eastern necropolis two pits were dug with the total area of 3994 m².

Investigated the complex № 23 at Old Bogdanovka which authors of excavation interpreted as «temenos with an altar of compound type and the established design» has was extended in the scientific literature. Meanwhile, the given object is the furnace, most likely for manufacture of ceramics. Existing analogies allow to present reconstruction of the given object, as a folding, dome furnace, with two channels. As fuel the reed was used. Prints of a reed are met by we on handles throats and legs of amphoras of various centres V—III B. C.

The main idea of this article is to develop recent S. Yu. Monakhov’s (1997) conception concerning the possibility to attribute several types of amphorae (end of the IV-th — the first decades of the III-rd cent. B. C.), which were previously ascribed to Heracleia Pontica, but have a number of peculiarities uncommon for this center and resembling the Sinopean ones, to uncertain South-Pontic poleis.

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The barrow of Alexandropol — one of the largest Scythian imperial barrows in the region of the Black Sea. It is located near with. In 2004—2009 Scythian Steppe expedition of Institute of archeology NAS of Ukraine has lead repeated researches Alexandropol barrow. In result the following was established:

In Belozerskoe settlement at the mouth of the Dnieper excavations were conducted from 1991 and here, in a sector of c. 3000 m², were discovered objects of two building periods. In one of them, № 80, several amphoras were found, some with graffiti and dipinti, and also some other ware and black glaze pottery, and other materials. This structure belongs to the category of semi-ground, which were in use during the first building period.

A bronze olpe in which a hoard of cyzicenes was found in 2003 in Myrmekion is discussed. The vessel belongs to a group of biconical bronze olpai singled out by Thomas Weber as Type III. B and should be dated to the first half, or possibly the second quarter of the 5^th century BC (the hoard in the olpe was hidden in the second quarter of the 4^th century BC).