Anatolia
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Clarendon Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780198140801 |
| Open Library | OL4301657W |
| Total publications | 7 |
| Coverage period | 1993 - 1993 |
| Language | EN |
"This is the first comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity to be written for nearly fifty years and the first attempt to treat Anatolian history as a whole over the millenium from the time of Alexander the Great to the peak of the Byzantine Empire. The first volume is in two parts. The first examines the region in the Hellenistic period, when it was dominated by Celtic tribes who settled in the interior of Asia Minor in the first half of the third century B.C. The second covers the period of the Roman Empire and looks in detail at the changes brought about by imperial rule" -- Amazon.com.
The Galatians in the Hellenistic World
In 280 BC1 a mass of migrating Celtic peoples invaded Macedonia. By arrangement between the leaders, one group led by Kerethrios made for the Thracians and the Triballi in the east; a second under Brennos and Akichorios invaded Paeonia; and a third under Bolgios picked the Macedonians and Illyrians, attacking and indeed killing Ptolemy, called Keraunos, who had recently acquired the kingship of Macedon.2 This was not the first direct contact betw…
The Development of the Cities
By the period that most of the cities of Anatolia were founded, the possibility that a polis might still be a genuinely autonomous or independent community was long since extinct. At the beginning of the second century AD Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch reminded their upper-class contemporaries and their fellow citizens that it was no longer possible to act as though they lived in the days of Pericles and Demosthenes.1 A community’s freedom of action…
Ethnography and Settlement of the Anatolian Celts
The history of the Gauls for a century and a half after the invasion of Asia Minor is not an inspiring one, nor does it contribute a major topic to Hellenistic history. ‘Commandés souvent clans leur propre langue, par des officiers qui soot des leurs, munis de leurs armes traditionelles, ii ne semble pas que ces hommes quitraversaient en tout sens les pays grecs qu’ils pillaient aient apporté grande chose é la civilisation hellénitique.’
The Imperial Cult
Only three Roman cities in central Anatolia outside the province of Asia have yet been excavated on a substantial scale: Ancyra, Pessinus, and Pisidian Antioch. In each case the central feature of these excavations has been a temple dedicated to the imperial cult, built in the time of Augustus or Tiberius. Emperor worship was from the first an institution of great importance to the provincial communities, and one that had, quite literally, a cent…
In formam provinciae redacta
In 25 BC the possessions of Amyntas were annexed to the Roman empire, and the province of Galatia was created.1 During the preceding two centuries Rome had acquired new territory in a host of different circumstances. There were wide vicissitudes in the forms of provincial administration, and the term provincia itself could convey a broad spectrum of meanings in different contexts, ranging from the purview and responsibilities of a Roman magistrat…
Anatolia
"This is the first comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity to be written for nearly fifty years and the first attempt to treat Anatolian history as a whole over the millenium from the time of Alexander the Great to the peak of the Byzantine Empire. The first volume is in two parts. The first examines the region in the Hellenistic period, when it was dominated by Celtic tribes who settled in the interior of Asia Minor in the …
The Allies of Rome
Strabo, in book r 2, provides an account of the Galatian constitution which, although brief, is probably the most complete description of Celtic political organization in any part of the ancient world: The three tribes used the same language and differed from one another in no other respect; they were divided each into four sections, and called them tetrarchies, each having its own tetrarch, one judge and one military commander, subordinate to th…
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The Galatians in the Hellenistic World
In 280 BC1 a mass of migrating Celtic peoples invaded Macedonia. By arrangement between the leaders, one group led by Kerethrios made for the Thracians and the Triballi in the east; a second under Brennos and Akichorios invaded Paeonia; and a third under Bolgios picked the Macedonians and Illyrians, attacking and indeed killing Ptolemy, called Keraunos, who had recently acquired the kingship of Macedon.2 This was not the first direct contact betw…
The Development of the Cities
By the period that most of the cities of Anatolia were founded, the possibility that a polis might still be a genuinely autonomous or independent community was long since extinct. At the beginning of the second century AD Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch reminded their upper-class contemporaries and their fellow citizens that it was no longer possible to act as though they lived in the days of Pericles and Demosthenes.1 A community’s freedom of action…
Ethnography and Settlement of the Anatolian Celts
The history of the Gauls for a century and a half after the invasion of Asia Minor is not an inspiring one, nor does it contribute a major topic to Hellenistic history. ‘Commandés souvent clans leur propre langue, par des officiers qui soot des leurs, munis de leurs armes traditionelles, ii ne semble pas que ces hommes quitraversaient en tout sens les pays grecs qu’ils pillaient aient apporté grande chose é la civilisation hellénitique.’
The Imperial Cult
Only three Roman cities in central Anatolia outside the province of Asia have yet been excavated on a substantial scale: Ancyra, Pessinus, and Pisidian Antioch. In each case the central feature of these excavations has been a temple dedicated to the imperial cult, built in the time of Augustus or Tiberius. Emperor worship was from the first an institution of great importance to the provincial communities, and one that had, quite literally, a cent…
In formam provinciae redacta
In 25 BC the possessions of Amyntas were annexed to the Roman empire, and the province of Galatia was created.1 During the preceding two centuries Rome had acquired new territory in a host of different circumstances. There were wide vicissitudes in the forms of provincial administration, and the term provincia itself could convey a broad spectrum of meanings in different contexts, ranging from the purview and responsibilities of a Roman magistrat…
Anatolia
"This is the first comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity to be written for nearly fifty years and the first attempt to treat Anatolian history as a whole over the millenium from the time of Alexander the Great to the peak of the Byzantine Empire. The first volume is in two parts. The first examines the region in the Hellenistic period, when it was dominated by Celtic tribes who settled in the interior of Asia Minor in the …
The Allies of Rome
Strabo, in book r 2, provides an account of the Galatian constitution which, although brief, is probably the most complete description of Celtic political organization in any part of the ancient world: The three tribes used the same language and differed from one another in no other respect; they were divided each into four sections, and called them tetrarchies, each having its own tetrarch, one judge and one military commander, subordinate to th…