SEG 63-1800. Funerary stelai from western Asia Minor and the islands, Hellenistic and early Imperial period.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Asia Minor ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Western Asia

The Milyas and the Attalids: a Decree of the City of Olbasa and a New Royal Letter of the Second Century B.C.

1994 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Kearsley
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
The City

The site of Olbasa was first identified by the discovery of two Latin imperial inscriptions near the modern village of Belenli in 1842 and even today the surviving evidence from Olbasa (including as it does both texts and coins) still belongs chiefly to the imperial period. Olbasa's prominence then stemmed from the fact that it was “refounded” by Augustus as a military colony. Very little has been pieced together of the history and development of the city prior to the arrival of the Romans and the present inscription, therefore, represents a large advance on our knowledge of Olbasa in the Hellenistic period as well as contributing to our understanding of developments in the region at large.Modern research on the area of south-western Asia Minor now known as Lycia and Pisidia has been greatly assisted by the work of George Bean and Alan Hall both of whom published major articles containing topographical discussions and many previously unknown inscriptions. The Pisidian Survey Project led by Stephen Mitchell has also contributed greatly to our historical understanding of the region in both the Hellenistic and Roman periods by the archaeological studies conducted at the cities of Antioch by Pisidia, Sagalassos, Cremna and Ariassos.

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.

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.

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