Military colonization in Phrygia (4th century BC - 3rd century AD) Spatial, economic and social dynamics. Volume 1: synthesis.
MOM| N° d'inventaire | 26540 |
| Format | |
| Détails | 564 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Lyon, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782356680808 |
At the heart of a geographically ill-defined Phrygian area in Antiquity, the installation of military colonists, former soldiers and troops still active, responded to perfectly identified strategic objectives for the Achaemenids, the Hellenistic monarchs and even the Romans. It was a question of controlling an area essential for land communications between the interior of the Anatolian plateau on the one hand and the Aegean on the other, but also between this same coast and Cilicia, then beyond Syria. On a tactical level, this military presence was to serve to protect the Phrygian plateau and valleys from the covetousness of poorly controlled neighboring populations such as the Pisidians.
Drawing on numerous archaeological, numismatic and epigraphic sources, examining each community on a case-by-case basis, this work studies the consequences of the installation of these soldiers on the local reality, whether at the economic, cultural, religious or social level. Covering a long period from the 4th century BC to the end of the Severan dynasty, it attempts to weigh the developments linked to the presence of these allogenic soldiers. Between Achaemenid Phrygia and Hellenistic and then Roman Phrygia, the face of the region, essentially rural at the start, gradually evolved: from the Hellenistic period, we observe a significant phenomenon of poliadization, making the communication network denser and the control of local populations more complex.
At the heart of a geographically ill-defined Phrygian area in Antiquity, the installation of military colonists, former soldiers and troops still active, responded to perfectly identified strategic objectives for the Achaemenids, the Hellenistic monarchs and even the Romans. It was a question of controlling an area essential for land communications between the interior of the Anatolian plateau on the one hand and the Aegean on the other, but also between this same coast and Cilicia, then beyond Syria. On a tactical level, this military presence was to serve to protect the Phrygian plateau and valleys from the covetousness of poorly controlled neighboring populations such as the Pisidians.
Drawing on numerous archaeological, numismatic and epigraphic sources, examining each community on a case-by-case basis, this work studies the consequences of the installation of these soldiers on the local reality, whether at the economic, cultural, religious or social level. Covering a long period from the 4th century BC to the end of the Severan dynasty, it attempts to weigh the developments linked to the presence of these allogenic soldiers. Between Achaemenid Phrygia and Hellenistic and then Roman Phrygia, the face of the region, essentially rural at the start, gradually evolved: from the Hellenistic period, we observe a significant phenomenon of poliadization, making the communication network denser and the control of local populations more complex.