Colonial Geopolitics and Local Cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (3rd century BC – 3rd century AD)

What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials or merchants? What were the mutual influences between native and colonial cultures? This collection addresses these questions and many more, focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman East.

Colonial Geopolitics and Local Cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (3rd century BC – 3rd century AD) presents contributions taken in the main from a panel held during the Celtic Conference in Classics 2014 (Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25-28th 2014), but also incorporates a number of papers given previously at another panel which convened at Mamaia (Romania, September 23-27th, 2012). What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials or merchants? One of the main concerns of local geopolitics was the central question of how agricultural land was distributed to the Greek or Roman colonists after it had been seized from the native population? In what way did the state watch over and administer the colonised territories? What were the exact social, legal, cultural and political relationships between the natives and the newcomers? Did the language of the colonists dominate the local vernacular language or not, and in what way? Did onomastics change or not in particular regions over centuries? What were the mutual influences between native and colonial cultures? This collection addresses these questions, focusing on the Hellenistic and Roman East.

Introduction Part 1: Territories and colonial settlements Hellenistic colonization and local culture in Commagene and Northern Cyrrhestice - Margherita Facella The territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia after the Greek colonization and some remarks on Nikaia in Bithynia and Apollonia in Pisidia: the evidence from archaeological surveys and satellite remote sensing - Giuseppe Scardozzi On The Treaty of Apamea. The territorial clause - Adrian Dumitru The nature of Attalid katoikiai (188-133 BC) - Nicholas Sekunda Les Thraces et Lyciens en Phrygie Paroree aux epoques hellenistique et romaine - Hadrien Bru Part 2: Economics and imperial domination The introduction of Hellenic cults in Seleukid Syria: colonial appropriation and transcultural exchange in the creation of an Imperial landscape - Rolf Strootman Les relations entre les Thraces et les cites grecques de la mer Noire : conflits, alliances, transferts institutionnels - Adrian Robu Late cistophoric production during the Mithridatic Wars: a comparison between the mints of Ephesus and Tralles - Lucia Francesca Carbone Regional currencies within an empire. Bronze coinages of Greece and Asia at the time of the Roman conquest: a case of partial monetary convergence - Gilles Bransbourg Part 3: Indigenous cultures and colonial contacts Decolonizing the Indo-Greeks - Richard Wenghofer Entre perte d'autonomie, acculturation et integration : les incolae de la colonie romaine de Dion - Julien Demaille Paus. X. 23. 14 on the Galatians' Passage to Asia: lost in translation - Oleg Gabelko Les chretiens d'Asie Mineure et l'evangelisation du Barbaricum danubien (IIIe-IVe siecles). Des relations assez mal connues - Attila Jakab Part 4: Forms of military presence Soldiers and Hellenism: recruitment in the Hellenistic militaries - D.J. Houle Germanicus, Trajan, and the date of Annals 1-6 - Katherine Low Two military camps on the Roman Limes: Dura-Europos and Novae (an example of Roman Imperial propaganda through official state religion) - Oleg Alexandrov The political propaganda of the cities of Thrace and the Asianic provinces. Some aspects of interactions (A preliminary study) - Ivo Topalilov Indices Geographical index Index of personal names Cultural, historical, geographical and political communities Deities, Introduction ;

Part 1: Territories and colonial settlementsMargherita FacellaGiuseppe ScardozziAdrian Dumitrukatoikiai (188-133 BC) – Nicholas SekundaHadrien Bru Part 2: Economics and imperial dominationRolf StrootmanAdrian RobuLucia Francesca CarboneGilles Bransbourg Part 3: Indigenous cultures and colonial contactsRichard Wenghoferincolae de la colonie romaine de Dion – Julien DemailleOleg Gabelko Barbaricum danubien (IIIe-IVe siècles). Des relations assez mal connues – Attila Jakab Part 4: Forms of military presence D.J. HouleAnnals 1-6 – Katherine LowLimes: Dura-Europos and Novae (an example of Roman Imperial propaganda through official state religion) – Oleg AlexandrovIvo Topalilov Indices