The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. I, focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilizations. Cultural achievements of exceptional and everlasting importance, including significant creations of ancient Greek literature, philosophy, art and architecture, originated in the coastal cities of western Anatolia and the adjoining Aegean islands.
In the fourth century BC, the eastern cities experienced a new economic boom, and a revival of Archaic culture, sometimes termed ‘The Ionian Renaissance’, began. The cultural revival furthered rebuilding of old major works such as the Artemision at Ephesos, the embellishment of sanctuaries and a new royal architecture, such as the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos. The rich cultural revival was initially promoted by the satrapal family of the Hekatomnids in Karia and in particular by its most famous member, Maussollos, whose influence was not confined to Asia Minor, but included the Dodekanese islands Kos and Rhodos. Partly under the influence of the Karian satrapy, a number of cities were founded on a new common urban model in Rhodos, Halikarnassos, Priene, Knidos and Kos. When Alexander the Great conquered the satrapies in western Asia Minor in 334 BC, the culture initially promoted at the satrapal courts was carried on by gifted thinkers, poets and architects, preparing the way for Hellenistic cultural centres such as Alexandria.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Cities and monuments in Classical Karia and the Dodekanese
  • 1. Theatroeideis poleis. Cities and urbanization in Eastern Greece
  • 2. From Classical to Hellenistic: the Maussolleion and the Ionian Renaissance
• On the Maussolleion and Halikarnassos
  • 3. The masters of the Maussolleion of Halikarnassos
  • 4. Glass vessels from the tomb chamber of Maussollos: an update
  • 5. The function of the Maussolleion terrace after 350 BC: the testimony of the finds
  • 6. Another Amazon frieze from ancient Halikarnassos
• Karian sites and sanctuaries
  • 7. The Hekatomneion in Mylasa: preliminary studies on the cult
  • 8. Anta construction and design in Hekatomnid Labraunda
  • 9. The Temple of Hemithea at Kastabos and the “Ionian Renaissance”
• Karia, the Dodekanese and beyond
  • 10. Karian influences in Early Hellenistic Kos: political, urban and religious aspects
  • 11. Imports of building stones from Hekatomnid Karia in early-Synoikized Kos: architectural remains and possible quarry-sources
  • 12. Western Asia Minor workshops and the Early Hellenistic architecture of Alexandria
  • 13. The diversity of motif: on the broader contextualization of banquet-scenes in Karia and the Dodekanese
• The urban history of a city in the southeast Aegean
  • 14. Structuring urban and maritime space at Burgaz, Turkey