Mountain and plain : from the Lycian coast to the Phrygian plateau in the late Roman and early Byzantine period / by Martin Harrison ; edited by Wendy Young.
2001
DS156.L8 H37 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
Mountain and plain : from the Lycian coast to the Phrygian plateau in the late Roman and early Byzantine period / by Martin Harrison ; edited by Wendy Young.
ISBN
0472110845 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472110841 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472110841 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2001.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 127 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Call Number
DS156.L8 H37 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
939/.28
Summary
"In the classical period, the remote region of Lycia supported up to forty cities. The coastal centers grew to considerable size and importance, perhaps owing their prosperity to the fact that the main shipping lanes from wealthy Egypt and Syria lay right along the Lycian coast, with its numerous safe harbors. In late antiquity, a population shift seems to have occurred. The urban populations along the coast appear to have declined, while smaller settlements (monasteries, villages, and towns) began cropping up in the sheltered mountain vales farther up and farther in. To be sure, the coast was not abandoned - indeed, evidence suggests a mutual dependence between the inhabited centers of mountain and plain."
"The current study is the result of Martin Harrison's forty years of travel and research in the area that was once Lycia, where the silent ruins of monasteries and churches, towns, villages, and hamlets remain largely inaccessible and unexplored. Also presented are the findings from his excavation of the Phrygian city of Amorium, which became more important as the great classical cities declined and which, at its peak, ranked second only to Byzantium, until it fell to Arab invaders."--Jacket.
"The current study is the result of Martin Harrison's forty years of travel and research in the area that was once Lycia, where the silent ruins of monasteries and churches, towns, villages, and hamlets remain largely inaccessible and unexplored. Also presented are the findings from his excavation of the Phrygian city of Amorium, which became more important as the great classical cities declined and which, at its peak, ranked second only to Byzantium, until it fell to Arab invaders."--Jacket.
Note
Posthumous work based on the author's notes which were sorted and edited by Wendy Young.
"The current study is the result of Martin Harrison's forty years of travel and research in the area that was once Lycia, where the silent ruins of monasteries and churches, towns, villages, and hamlets remain largely inaccessible and unexplored. Also presented are the findings from his excavation of the Phrygian city of Amorium, which became more important as the great classical cities declined and which, at its peak, ranked second only to Byzantium, until it fell to Arab invaders."--Jacket.
"The current study is the result of Martin Harrison's forty years of travel and research in the area that was once Lycia, where the silent ruins of monasteries and churches, towns, villages, and hamlets remain largely inaccessible and unexplored. Also presented are the findings from his excavation of the Phrygian city of Amorium, which became more important as the great classical cities declined and which, at its peak, ranked second only to Byzantium, until it fell to Arab invaders."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Young, Wendy (Wendy Dennis)
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Table of Contents
Cities of the Lycian Coastal Region
Pinara
Xanthos
Myra
From the Coast to the Mountains
Dereagzi
Muskar
Alakilise
Dikmen
Turant Dag
Karabel-Asarcik
Devekuyusu
Alacahisar
Arykanda-Arif
The Elmali Plateau and Its Mountains
Choma
Podalia
Kizilbel
Tekkekoy
Mugren
Gilevgi
Armutlu
Elmali Dag
Serkiz Alani
Ovacik
Phrygia and Amorium via Antalya and Pisidia
Nicholas of Myra and Nicholas of Sion
Three Inscriptions from Ovacik / Michael Ballance, Charlotte Roueche.
Pinara
Xanthos
Myra
From the Coast to the Mountains
Dereagzi
Muskar
Alakilise
Dikmen
Turant Dag
Karabel-Asarcik
Devekuyusu
Alacahisar
Arykanda-Arif
The Elmali Plateau and Its Mountains
Choma
Podalia
Kizilbel
Tekkekoy
Mugren
Gilevgi
Armutlu
Elmali Dag
Serkiz Alani
Ovacik
Phrygia and Amorium via Antalya and Pisidia
Nicholas of Myra and Nicholas of Sion
Three Inscriptions from Ovacik / Michael Ballance, Charlotte Roueche.