Between Tarhuntas and Zeus Polieus
Cultural Crossroads in the Temples and Cults of Graeco-Roman Anatolia
edited by M.-P. de Hoz, J.P. Sanchez Hernandez and C. Molina Valero
Anatolia is an area of the ancient world with a remarkable borderland character between the Greek and the Near Eastern worlds. The present book studies several ancient Anatolian cults and sanctuaries, focusing on the process of interaction between local cultures (Lycian, Carian, Pisidian, Cilician, Lydian, Pontic), Persians, Greeks and Romans. Which Greek practices did the natives adopt as part of their own tradition, especially in far-flung regions such as Pontus or Pisidia? How did these practices, together with the survival (or even revival) of ancient traditions, help forge a sort of regional identity in local sanctuaries? Which were the different roles played in this process by the local elites and the rural native populations? To answer such questions, each specific contribution presents a case study with a thorough analysis of the available epigraphic, numismatic, literary and archaeological evidence from a linguistic, historical and religious perspective.
Anatolia is an area of the ancient world with a remarkable borderland character between the Greek and the Near Eastern worlds. The present book studies several ancient Anatolian cults and sanctuaries, focusing on the process of interaction between local cultures (Lycian, Carian, Pisidian, Cilician, Lydian, Pontic), Persians, Greeks and Romans. Which Greek practices did the natives adopt as part of their own tradition, especially in far-flung regions such as Pontus or Pisidia? How did these practices, together with the survival (or even revival) of ancient traditions, help forge a sort of regional identity in local sanctuaries? Which were the different roles played in this process by the local elites and the rural native populations? To answer such questions, each specific contribution presents a case study with a thorough analysis of the available epigraphic, numismatic, literary and archaeological evidence from a linguistic, historical and religious perspective. Gathered from a vast geographical area – from Ionia to Cilicia – this book explores different examples of these interactions expressed through local versions of major Greek and Anatolian deities: the Xanthian Leto, Ma of Comana, the Carian Sinuri, Men Askaenos, Meis Axiottenos, Apollo Syrmaios, Artemis Sardiane, Meter Sipylene, a Cilician Zeus Ceraunius and the river gods.
- Edited by M-P de Hoz
- Edited by C Molina Valero
- Edited by JP Sanchez Hernandez
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Continuing an Account of Greek Colonies and Settlements Overseas (Greek Colonisation vol. 3)
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Religious Excitement in Ancient Anatolia
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Archaeology of Eastern Anatolia II: From Prehistoric Times to the End of the Iron Ages
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Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts: Coins of the Black Sea Region. Part II: Ancient Coins of the Black Sea Littoral
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Phrygia in Antiquity: From the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Period
Proceedings of an International Conference 'The Phrygian Lands over Time: From Prehistory to the Middle of the 1st Millennium AD', held at Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2nd-8th November, 2015
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Ex toto orbe Romano: Immigration into Roman Dacia
With Prosopographical Observations on the Population of Dacia
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An Approach to the Historical Geography of the Southern Black Sea Littoral (First Millennium BC)
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Une autre façon d’être grec: interactions et productions des Grecs en milieu colonial. Another Way of Being Greek: Interactions and Cultural Innovations of the Greeks in a Colonial Milieu
Actes du colloque international organisé à Amiens (Université de Picardie Jules Verne/TRAME) et Paris (ANHIMA), 18-19 novembre 2016
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Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
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Tell Qudadi
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The Achaemenids, the Black Sea and Beyond: New Evidence and Studies
A Volume Dedicated to the Memory of Prof. Alexandru Avram
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Dining and Death
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the 'Funerary Banquet' in Ancient Art, Burial and Belief
Volume 16
Die zyprischen Königtümer im Schatten der Großreiche des Vorderen Orients
Studien zu den zyprischen Monarchien vom 8. bis zum 4. Jh. v. Chr.
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Archaic and Classical Western Anatolia: New Perspectives in Ceramic Studies
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Money of Mercenaries in the Cimmerian Bosporus
From the Mithridatic Wars to the Roman-Bosporan War of AD 45-49
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Cultural Identity within the Northern Black Sea Region in Antiquity
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