Pamphylia, in modern Turkey, was a Greek country from the early Iron
Age until the Middle Ages. In that land there were nine cities which
can be described more or less as Greek, and this book is an
investigation of their history. This was a land at the margins of
other great empires - Hellenistic, Roman, Arab and Byzantine - and is
still off the beaten track, though Aspendos, Perge and Phaselis are
all visited for their archaeology. Only one ancient source, Strabo,
discusses the area at any length, and John Grainger therefore has to
bring together a wide variety of exiguous and fragmentary sources to
tell the cities' story. His focus is not only regional - he is
interested in the impact of outside forces on a particular civic
culture. He considers the processes of city foundation, settlement,
urbanisation and evolution, and the cities' mutual relations. Coastal
piracy drew Pamphylia into the Roman empire, and finally, in the
seventh century AD, the Arabs destroyed the cities in their wars with
the Byzantine empire.
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ISBN
9781782972952
Publisert
2014
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Oxbow Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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