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Author Unwin, Naomi Carless, 1985- author.

Title Caria and Crete in antiquity : cultural interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean / Naomi Carless Unwin
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 266 pages)
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'
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
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
International relations
SUBJECT Caria -- History
Crete (Greece) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033945
Caria -- Relations -- Greece -- Crete
Crete (Greece) -- Relations -- Turkey -- Caria
Subject Greece -- Crete
Turkey -- Caria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108339780
1108339786