Cityscapes and monuments of western Asia Minor : memories and identities / Cityscapes & monuments of western Asia Minor : memories and identities edited by Eva Mortensen and Birte Poulsen. - xi, 299 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 29 cm

"The present book contains a collection of papers that resulted from a conference entitled Cityscapes & Monuments of Remembrance in Western Asia Minor held at Aarhus University in October 2014."--Preface, page x.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Contibutions chiefly in English, some in German.

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Archaeology--Turkey.
Monuments--Turkey.
Cities and towns, Ancient--Turkey.


Turkey--History.
Turkey--Antiquities.

DS155 / .C595 2017

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