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The Cities of Pamphylia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grainger, John D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns, Ancient--Turkey--Pamphylia.
- City and town life--Turkey--Pamphylia--History.
- Greeks--Turkey--Pamphylia--History.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--History, Local.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--History.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--Politics and government.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--Social conditions.
- Political culture--Turkey--Pamphylia--History.
- Cities and towns, Ancient--History--Pamphylia--Turkey.
- Cities and towns, Ancient.
- City and town life--History--Pamphylia--Turkey.
- City and town life.
- Political culture--History--Pamphylia--Turkey.
- Political culture.
- Greeks--Pamphylia--Turkey.
- Greeks.
- Pamphylia (Turkey).
- Local Subjects:
- Cities and towns, Ancient--Turkey--Pamphylia.
- City and town life--Turkey--Pamphylia--History.
- Greeks--Turkey--Pamphylia--History.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--History, Local.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--History.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--Politics and government.
- Pamphylia (Turkey)--Social conditions.
- Political culture--Turkey--Pamphylia--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (502 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pamphylia, in modern Turkey, was a Greek country from the early Iron Age until the Middle Ages. In that land there were nine cities which can be described more or less as Greek, and this book is an investigation of their history. This was a land at the margins of other great empires - Hellenistic, Roman, Arab and Byzantine - and is still off the beaten track, though Aspendos, Perge and Phaselis are all visited for their archaeology. Only one ancient source, Strabo, discusses the area at any length, and John Grainger therefore has to bring together a wide variety of exiguous and fragmentary sou
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Charts; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Arrival of the Greeks; Chapter 2: The New Cities; Chapter 3: Intruders: Kroisos and the Persians; Chapter 4: The Effects of Alexander; Chapter 5: Hellenistic Growth; Chapter 6: The Effects of Antiochos III; Chapter 7: Pirates and Romans; Chapter 8: Imperial Subjects; Chapter 9: The Effects of Christianity; Chapter 10: The End of Greek Pamphylia; Conclusion; Appendix 1: A Ruler of Pamphylia in Plato; Appendix 2: City Statistics; Bibliography; Index; Plates
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781782972976
- 1782972978
- 9781782972952
- 1782972951
- OCLC:
- 881570339
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