Space, Place and Identity in Northern Anatolia

Space, Place and Identity in Northern Anatolia

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Until now, most studies of Roman Anatolia have been focused on the strongly Hellenised and urbanised regions of western and southern Asia Minor. In this volume, the first on its subject, thirteen contributors from nine different countries address the question of how local identities were created and maintained in northern Anatolia from the fall of Mithradates VI to the middle Byzantine period. In a region that did not possess a Hellenistic polis-tradition, the fledgling inland cities founded by Pompey the Great struggled to develop an urban identity of their own, while the old-established Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast had to come to terms with the reality of Roman domination without abandoning their Hellenic identity. Drawing on the evidence of archaeology, art, epigraphy and numismatics, the authors trace the diverse ways in which provincial cities – that is to say, provincial urban élites – attempted to construct local identities for themselves, and how mythology, religion, language and tradition were all employed to define and project a specific identity for each city and its territory – transforming geographical "space" into mentally and culturally defined "place".

"Althought the contributors have diverging research methodologis, the thoughtful editing has drawn out the bridges that connect the chapters."

Peri Johnson, Journal of Roman Archaeology 33, 2020
Series Geographica historica
Volume 29
ISBN 978-3-515-10748-8
Media type Book - Paperback
Edition number 1.
Copyright year 2014
Publisher Franz Steiner Verlag
Length 271 pages
Illustrations 33 b/w figs., 27 col. figs., 87 Münzen-Abb.
Size 17.0 x 24.0 cm
Language English