Cityscapes and monuments of western Asia Minor : memories and identities / edited by Eva Mortensen and Birte Poulson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mortensen, Eva, editor.

Poulson, Birte, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Turkey.

Archaeology.

Monuments--Turkey.

Monuments.

Cities and towns, Ancient--Turkey.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

Turkey--History.

Turkey.

Turkey--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 299 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.

Language Note:

Contibutions chiefly in English, some in German.

Summary:

Cityscapes consist of houses, streets, civic buildings, sanctuaries, tombs, monuments, and inscriptions created by multiple generations of citizens and foreigners with an interest in the city; they are interpreted and reinterpreted as expressions of past lives, changing relations of power, memories, and various identities. The present volume publishes 25 contributions written by scholars specializing in the history and archaeology of western Asia Minor. New and well-known material - literary, epigraphical, numismatic, and archaeological - is presented and analyzed through the twin lenses of memory and identity.The contributions cover more than 1000 years of cultural diversity during changing political systems, from the Lydian and Persian hegemony in the Archaic period through Athenian supremacy and Persian satrapal rule in the Classical period, then autocratic kingship in Hellenistic times until, finally, more than half a millennium of Roman rule.Identities are voiced through several media and visible at many levels of the ancient societies. So are the places of memory - the Lieux de Mémoire - and the studies presented here provide new insights into how human beings chose, deliberately or subconsciously, to commemorate their past and their ancestors, and how identity was displayed and expressed under shifting political rule.

Contents:

Preface / Eva Mortensen and Birte Poulsen

Introduction. Constructing Memories: Gateways between Identity and Socio-Political Pluralism in Ancient Western Asia Minor / Martina Seifert

Cityscapes of Remembrance. Cityscape and Places of Memory in Assos / Eva-Maria Mohr and Klaus Rheidt

Nothing to Remember? Redesigning the Ancient City of Assos in the Byzantine Era / Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan

Glory be to (Insert Name Here): Civic Memory, Political Discourse, and Municipal Ruler Cult in Hellenistic Teos / Anthony Shannon

Das Stadtbild von Magnesia am Mäander nach den 30-jährigen Ausgrabungen (Kurzfassung) / Orhan Bingöl

Narratives and Shared Memories of Heroes in the Aphrodisian Cityscape / Eva Mortensen

The City of Xanthus: "Lieu de mémoire" of the Lycians / Jacques des Courtils

Expressing Civic Self-Perception and Constructing Identity - Public Imagery in Roman Asia Minor / Kai Töpfer

Recollections of the Past in Public Civic Monuments. Gymnasia: From a Space to an Institution of Remembrance / Ulrich Mania

Representing and Remembering Rituals in Public Space: Depictions of Sacrifice in Roman Asia Minor / Günther Schörner

Aspects of Public Memory at the East Gate of Side / Ute Lohner-Urban

Representations of Memories and Identities in the Private Sphere. Identity in the Private Sphere: Interpreting Houses as Loci Reflecting the Identity of Their Inhabitants / Elisabeth Rathmayr

A P(a)lace of Remembrance? Reflections on the Historical Depth of a Monumental Domus in Ephesos / Christoph Baier

Narratives of Remembrance in a Religious Context. Die Sitzstatue eines Dichters aus Klaros / Ergün Lafli

Ephesus and the Amazons: Remembering or Recreating the Early History of a Greek Polis in the 5th Century BC / Helene Blinkenberg Hastrup

Building the Route Over Time: Memory of a Processional Road in Kos / Monica Livadiotti and Giorgio Rocco

Building Memory on the Route: for a Visual Reconstruction of Festive Processions in Kos / Luigi Caliò

Der Apollo Archegetes Heiligtum auf der Asar Insel bei Myndos / Mustafa Şahin

- Two Cities - One Goddess? The Transfer of Ancient Cities in the Hellenistic Period and the Reinterpretation of Older Cults: The Example of Heracleia under Latmus / Katy Opitz

Commemoration of the Dead. Material Culture as Marker of Ethnicity? The Burial Mounds of Kolophon and the Question of "Lydian", "Greek", and "Ionian" Identity / Benedikt Grammer

Defying Death in Ephesus: Strategies of Commemoration in a Roman Metropolis / Martin Steskal

The Totenmahl Tradition in Classical Western Asia Minor and the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos / Poul Pedersen

A Distant Memory: New Seleucid Portraits in Roman Hierapolis / Ilaria Romeo

Memorials to the Lycian Dead / Laurence Cavalier

MNHMA. Commemorative Inscriptions - Mirrors of Common Identity: The Epigraphic Habit in Ancient and Modern Funerary Spaces Compared / Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785708374

1785708376

9781785708398

1785708392

OCLC:

1046065861