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1 online resource (xx, 266 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; List of maps; Preface; A Note on Transliteration and Translation; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The Carian- Cretan Connection; Caria and Crete in the Maritime Itineraries of the Mediterranean; The Labrys and the Labyrinth; Network Formation and Cultural Exchange; Approaching Carian- Cretan Interaction; 1 Articulating a 'Carian' Identity; 'The Carians of Barbarian Speech'; Language and Identity; Delimiting 'Caria' and the 'Carians' |
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2 The Role of Crete in the Mythologies, Local Histories and Cults of CariaAncient Engagement with the Past; Sarpedon, Miletos and Kaunos; The 'Minoan' Ports of Anatolia; The Kretinaion of Magnesia-on-the-Maeander; The Carian Kouretes; Reading Mythological Traditions; 3 The Case of Miletos; The Processes of Transmission and the Question of Origins; Late Bronze Age Miletos; Minoan and Mycenaean Contacts with Southwestern Anatolia; Western Anatolia in the Hittite Sources; Caria on the Interface; Miletos: Continuities and Innovation. |
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4 Interaction and the Reception of the Cretan Connection during the Hellenistic PeriodTracing Interaction between Caria and Crete; The Cretan Decrees from Mylasa; Cretan Diplomacy and Cretan Piracy; Contextualising the Mylasan Inscriptions; The Role of the Past in Diplomatic Discourse; 5 Inscribing History at Magnesia-on-the-Maeander; Inscribing History; The Civic Context of the 'Origin Myth'; Shaping the Past; 6 A 'Cretan-Born' Zeus in Caria; The Evidence; Dynastic Influence vs. Local Dynamics; The Constitutional Reforms at Euromos; Interaction and Religious Mobility. |
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Interpreting the Carian Cults of Zeus Kretagenes/KretagenetasConcluding Remarks; Appendix 1: I. Magnesia 17; Appendix 2: The 'Cretan Dossier' of Mylasa; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Examines what regional mythologies reveal about the social and cultural orientation and identity of Caria in antiquity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Caria -- History.
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Crete (Greece) -- History.
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Caria -- Relations -- Greece -- Crete.
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Crete (Greece) -- Relations -- Turkey -- Caria.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. |
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International relations. |
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Greece -- Crete. |
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Turkey -- Caria. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Unwin, Naomi Carless, 1985- Caria and Crete in antiquity : cultural interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107194175 (OCoLC)987909511 |
| ISBN |
9781108339780 (electronic book) |
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1108339786 (electronic book) |
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9781107194175 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1107194172 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781108151801 (print) |
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1108151809 (print) |
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110833976X (print) |
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9781108339766 (print) |
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1108339719 (print) |
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9781316645420 (paperback) |
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