Pharos: The Parian Settlement in Dalmatia

Oxbow says: In the early 8th century BC a Greek colony was established by the Parians on the island of Hvar in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of modern Croatia. This volume presents a synthesis of what is known of this Greek colony gleaned from archaeological, written, epigraphic and numismatic sources. Branko Kirigin provides a review of the remains of Pharos and of research carried out on the city, before turning to what can be determined of its social organisation and administration, its economy, coinage, pottery, its cults and burial rituals, and the life of its most famous hero Demetrius of Pharos and his battle with the Roman consul Aemilius Paulus in 219BC which led to the destruction of the city.