Cityscapes consist of houses, streets, civic buildings, sanctuaries, tombs, monuments and inscriptions created by multiple generations of citizens and foreigners with an interest in the city; they are interpreted and reinterpreted as expressions of past lives, changing relations of power, memories and various identities. The present volume publishes 25 contributions written by scholars specializing in the history and archaeology of western Asia Minor. New and well-known material – literary, epigraphical, numismatic, and archaeological – is presented and analyzed through the twin lenses of memory and identity. The contributions cover more than 1000 years of cultural diversity during changing political systems, from the Lydian and Persian hegemony in the Archaic period through Athenian supremacy and Persian satrapal rule in the Classical period, then autocratic kingship in Hellenistic times until, finally, more than half a millennium of Roman rule. Identities are voiced through several media and visible at many levels of the ancient societies. So are the places of memory – the Lieux de Mémoire – and the studies presented here provide new insights into how human beings chose, deliberately or subconsciously, to commemorate their past and their ancestors, and how identity was displayed and expressed under shifting political rule.

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Part I Introduction
  • 1 Constructing Memories: Gateways between Identity and Socio-Political Pluralism in Ancient Western Asia Minor
• Part II Cityscapes of Remembrance
  • 2 Cityscape and Places of Memory in Assos
  • 3 Nothing to Remember? Redesigning the Ancient City of Assos in the Byzantine Era
  • 4 Glory be to (Insert Name Here): Civic Memory, Political Discourse and Municipal Ruler Cult in Hellenistic Teos
  • 5 Das Stadtbild von Magnesia am Mäander nach den 30-jährigen Ausgrabungen (Kurzfassung)
  • 6 Narratives and Shared Memories of Heroes in the Aphrodisian Cityscape
  • 7 The City of Xanthus: “Lieu de mémoire” of the Lycians
  • 8 Expressing Civic Self-Perception and Constructing Identity – Public Imagery in Roman Asia Minor
• Part III Recollections of the Past in Public Civic Monuments
  • 9 Gymnasia: From a Space to an Institution of Remembrance
  • 10 Representing and Remembering Rituals in Public Space: Depictions of Sacrifice in Roman Asia Minor
  • 11 Aspects of Public Memory at the East Gate of Side
• Part IV Representations of Memories and Identities in the Private Sphere
  • 12 Identity in the Private Sphere: Interpreting Houses as Loci Reflecting the Identity of Their Inhabitants
  • 13 A P(a)lace of Remembrance? Reflections on the Historical Depth of a Monumental Domus in Ephesos
• Part V Narratives of Remembrance in a Religious Context
  • 14 Die Sitzstatue eines Dichters aus Klaros
  • 15 Ephesus and the Amazons: Remembering or Recreating the Early History of a Greek Polis in the 5th Century BC
  • 16 Building the Route Over Time: Memory of a Processional Road in Kos
  • 17 Building Memory on the Route: For a Visual Reconstruction of Festive Processions in Kos
  • 18 Das Apollon Archegetes Heiligtum auf der Asar Insel bei Myndos
  • 19 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
• Part VI Commemoration of the Dead
  • 20 Material Culture as Marker of Ethnicity? The Burial Mounds of Kolophon and the Question of “Lydian”, “Greek”, and “Ionian” Identity
  • 21 Defying Death in Ephesus: Strategies of Commemoration in a Roman Metropolis
  • 22 The Totenmahl Tradition in Classical Asia Minor and the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos
  • 23 A Distant Memory: New Seleucid Portraits in Roman Hierapolis
  • 24 Memorials to the Lycian Dead
  • 25 MNHMA. Commemorative Inscriptions – Mirrors of Common Identity: The Epigraphic Habit in Ancient and Modern Funerary Spaces Compared
• Back Cover