Introduction
Résumé
One of the ongoing aspects of study of Greek ‘colonial’ settlements is that of interactions and exchanges between Greeks and local populations. This question seems to be longstanding. Greek sources already point to the multiethnic and multicultural character of these enterprises by judging it in a negative way, as a danger to the Greek identity of the settlers. The strong presence of local populations gave rise to several reflections on the mixed character of the Greeks of the ‘periphery’, these Greeks being not, according to the Greek historians, authentic Greeks.