Millennia in the Middle? Reconsidering the Chalcolithic of Asia Minor

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bleda S. Düring
Keyword(s):  
Food Resources ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Wild Food ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
Aegean Islands ◽  
Western Asia

This article focuses on how people lived in Asia Minor between about 5500 and 3000 BCE. It argues that the idea of a period dominated by small-scale, largely autarchic farming societies does not stand up to scrutiny. Although farming was of significant importance at many Chalcolithic societies in Asia Minor, the idea that wild food resources were no longer important is clearly mistaken. The Chalcolithic people were expanding their economies in multiple and often ingenious ways, and were increasingly partners in large exchange networks. Apart from farming, the exploitation of marine resources such as mollusks and fish has been documented. The rise of seafaring can be recognized through the distribution of Melos obsidian and the emergence of a cultural horizon in the northern Aegean that included western Asia Minor and the Aegean islands.

MARBLE SCULPTURES FROM PHTHIOTIS IN THE LAMIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

2013 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 275-321
Author(s):  
Iphigeneia Leventi
Keyword(s):  
Formal Language ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Aegean Islands ◽  
Marble Sculptures ◽  
Eros And Psyche ◽  
Greek East

Marble statuettes, now in the Lamia Archaeological Museum, that date to the Classical and above all the Hellenistic periods, and a Hellenistic votive relief depicting Herakles are presented here. This study investigates the relations between the local workshop in central Greece which produced them and the major Classical and Hellenistic sculptural centres of Athens and of the Aegean islands, Asia Minor and the kingdoms of the Greek East generally. A marble statuette of a goddess which may represent Artemis from Melitaia, and a marble statuette of a seated girl of unknown provenance are dated to the Classical period. The subjects portrayed in the Late Hellenistic material show a typical repertory, marble statuettes of Aphrodite or Aphrodite-like figures, and a statuary group of Eros and Psyche in marble, unusual for this period. The ways in which the local sculptors of the Late Hellenistic period in the area of modern Phthiotis adopted the typological and stylistic trends current in the great cosmopolitan centres are a major concern here. In the Hellenistic period, the production of marble statuettes for making offerings at public and domestic sanctuaries and for decorating opulent villas was in vogue, and a common formal language was created especially for small-scale sculpture in the eastern Mediterranean and the new art markets of Italy. The vehicles by which these artistic influences were transmitted to the sculptural production of central Greece will also be investigated.

LATE PAGANISM ON THE AEGEAN ISLANDS AND PROCESSES OF CHRISTIANISATION

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Deligiannakis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Aegean Islands ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
The Many

Detailed case-studies of Aegean paganism and temple conversion are presented for six sanctuaries in the Province of the Islands, and are assessed as part of the debate on Christianisation from western Asia Minor to mainland Greece. It is argued that, despite many similarities between the eastern islands and western coastal Asia Minor, there is little cultural homogeneity between the many sub-regions in this wide area.

Greek Tyrants and the Persians, 546–479 B.C.

1990 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Western Asia

The word ‘tyrant’ was not originally Greek, but borrowed from some eastern language, perhaps in western Asia Minor. On the other hand, tyranny as it developed in the Greek cities in the archaic age would seem to have been initially an indigenous growth, independent of any intervention by foreign powers. It then became a constantly recurring phenomenon of Greek political and social life, so long as the Greeks enjoyed an independent history.

Lucullus and Mithridates VI

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-191
Author(s):  
Duane W. Roller
Keyword(s):  
Asia Minor ◽  
Greek City ◽  
The Third ◽  
Western Asia

The third and final war between Mithridates VI and Rome began in 73 BC and was to last for a decade. The alliance with Sertorius came to nothing because of the death of the adventurer in 72 BC, but Mithridates embarked on the most extensive of his campaigns, with movements into the Roman territories of western Asia Minor. The proconsul L. Licinius Lucullus, formerly one of Sulla’s legates, was sent against him. After initial successes on the part of the king, fortunes began to turn against him, exemplified by a disastrous and lengthy siege of the Greek city of Kyzikos on the Propontis. But the war dragged on for several years, and in the summer of 67 BC Lucullus was recalled, accused of prolonging the war for his own aggrandizement.

Prehistoric Remains in South-Western Asia Minor.—II

1912 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 80-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Ormerod
Keyword(s):  
Asia Minor ◽  
Centre Line ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Village

The village of Senirdje is situated some 15 km. to the N.N.W. of Isbarta (Baris), in northern Pisidia, in a gap in the hills dividing the plain of Isbarta from the plain of Ketchiborlu, through which the line of the railway-extension from Ketchiborlu to Egerdir now passes. Close to the village is a low, flat mound, in marshy ground, which, when I visited it in 1911, was entirely flooded owing to the severity of the previous winter. The mound, the northern part of which is traversed by the railway-cutting, rises to a height of 13 feet above the level of the plain, and 11 ft. 6 in. above the rail, at a point 150 feet to the right of the centre-line. The top of the northern bank of the cutting is about five feet above the rail, the southern bank about 9 feet. Some 18 inches down to the level of the plain remain unexcavated.

Annotated list of amphibian and reptile taxa described by Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky (1924–2009)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4803 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-168
Author(s):  
ANDREI V. BARABANOV ◽  
IGOR V. DORONIN
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Western Asia

Ilya S. Darevsky co-described 70 taxa (three genera, 46 species, 21 subspecies) in 44 publications belonging to five orders, eight families of amphibians and reptiles during his career in herpetology. Of this number, three taxa are fossil and 57 taxa are currently considered as valid. By the regions where new taxa were discovered Southeast Asia and Western Asia (includes Caucasus and Asia Minor) dominates. The largest number of descriptions was published in the Russian Journal of Herpetology. 

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