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Attalid Asia Minor : money, international relations, and the state
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ISBN: 9780199656110 0199656118 0191746231 0191630101 9780191630101 9781299539112 1299539114 9780191746239 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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In the third century BC, the Attalid dynasts of Pergamon in north-western Asia Minor were relatively minor players in Hellenistic great-power politics. This all changed in 188 BC, when, under the terms of the treaty of Apameia, the Attalids were granted the greater share of the former Seleukid territories in western and inner Anatolia. At a stroke, the Attalids were elevated to the status of one of the major powers of the eastern Mediterranean; but this new-found prominence came at a price. The vast expanse of Attalid Asia Minor had been won not by conquest, but through a pragmatic and humiliating grant by Roman commissioners. As a result, the ideological and bureaucratic structures through which the second-century Attalid rulers administered their kingdom differed sharply from those of the other major Hellenistic dynasties.


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Éphèse et Pergame : urbanisme et commanditaires en Asie Mineure romaine
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ISBN: 2910023559 9782910023553 2356132945 Year: 2004 Volume: 11 Publisher: Bordeaux : De Boccard,

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L’architecture et l’urbanisme d’une ville sont le reflet d’une société et de sa mentalité. Dans le cas des villes antiques, une histoire détaillée des bâtiments publics et du financement de leur construction montre l’importance des bienfaiteurs et donateurs privés dans la définition de leur cadre fonctionnel. Deux cités d’Asie Mineure occidentale, Éphèse et Pergame, servent ici de base de test à l’investigation. En matière de développement social et urbanistique, chacune d’entre d’elles présente un profil tout à fait spécifique, qu’on pourrait même définir comme un type. La ville de l’époque impériale romaine suivit une voie de développement originale. Le désir d’ostentation des élites porteuses des transformations urbaines en fut un facteur déterminant. Le but de cet ouvrage est d’analyser et de modéliser ces caractéristiques sur la base de l’exemple des deux villes précitées. Architecture and urbanism of a city reflect social life and attitudes. In ancient cities, a detailed history of public buildings and the ways they were financed reveals the importance of benefactors and private donors in the determination of their functions. Ephesus and Pergamum, two cities of western Asia Minor, offer a test case for this type of study. In terms of social and urban development each city presents a quite specific profile which may even be regarded as a ‘type’. The city of the Roman imperial period followed its own trajectory of development. A determining element in this transformation was the desire of the elites for self-display. The goal of this book is to analyze and develop a model of these features on the basis of a study of these two cities.

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