Anatolian-Karian Versus Greek

Charter Myths Between the Maiandros River, Latmos and Mykale Mountains

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21609441
AutoresAlexander Herda (0000-1234-5567-8900, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen32
Páginas19-98
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnatolia Antiqua (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1018-1946 • E-ISSN: 2823-1090
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/16bgc
OpenAlexW7163190793
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas132

This article deals with the lower Maiandros/Maeander River region between the Mykale and the Latmos Mountains and Miletos, the border between the ‘colonial’ lands of Greek Aiolia and Ionia, and indigenous Anatolian Karia in the Iron Age (11th-4th century BCE). By analysing three complex groups of myths ‒ (a) that of Latmos, Phthir, Selene, Endymion, Naxos, and Malija-Athena in the Latmos Mountains, and (to a lesser extent) (b) that of Tarhunt-Zeus, Poseidon, Perseus, Gorgo-Medousa and Piḫaššašši-Pegasos in the Mykale Mountains, as well as (c) that of Maiandros, Miletos, Keladon, Kurunta/Apollo Branchideus/Ntro- Prŋida-, *Sanda(s)/Šanta-Herakles, Achilles and Menelaos ‒ it can be demonstrated that the Aiolian and Ionian Greeks successfully embedded their ancestral as well as newly created myths in the new lands which, needless to say, had their own Anatolian-Luwic religions and ‘landscape myths’

Charter · Greeks · Indigenous · Mythology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies