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Karia and the Dodekanese, Vol. II, presents new research that
highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the
Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor over a period of more than
700 years. Throughout antiquity, this region was a dynamic meeting
place for eastern and western civilizations. Modern geographical
limitations have been influential on both archaeological
investigations and how we approach cultural relations in the
region. Comprehensive and valuable research has been carried out on
many individual sites in Karia and the Dodekanese, but the results
have rarely been brought together in an attempt to paint a larger
picture of the culture of this region. In antiquity, the sea did
not constitute an obstacle to interaction between societies and
cultures, but was an effective means of communication for the
exchange of goods, sculptural styles, architectural form and
embellishment, education, and ideas. It is clear that close
relations existed between the Dodekanese and western Asia Minor
during the Classical period (Vol. I), but these relations were
evidently further strengthened under the shifting political
influences of the Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire, and the
cosmopolitan late antique period. The contributions in this volume
comprise investigations on urbanism, architectural form and
embellishment, sculpture, pottery, and epigraphy.
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.
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