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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 Memoire - 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.
Secrecy and the act of concealing and revealing knowledge
effectually segregate the initiated and the uninitiated. The act of
sharing or hiding knowledge plays a central role in all human
relations private or public, political or religious. This volume
explores the concept of secrecy and its implications in Antiquity,
Late Antiquity and the Renaissance in eleven cross-disciplinary
contributions using both textual and archaeological sources. By
exploring the revealing and concealing of knowledge across
different social contexts, time frames and geographical locations,
the book provides insight into the concept of secrecy and its
potential for illuminating the agendas behind identity
construction, political propaganda, literary works, religious
practices and shared history.
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