Preface to the English Edition ix Preface to the Second German Edition xi Preface xiii Acronyms and Abbreviations xvii Chapter 1 Introduction: Anatolia between East and West 1 Chapter 2 Modern Fieldwork in Asia Minor 15 Chapter 3 From Prehistory to the Oldest Written Culture 47 Chapter 4 The Late Bronze and Iron Age 68 Chapter 5 The Western Persian Empire and the World of the Greeks in Asia Minor (547/546 BCE to 333 BCE) 139 Chapter 6 Monarchies, Vassals, and Cities from Alexander's Empire to the Pax Romana (331 BCE to 31 BCE) 180 Chapter 7 Imperium Romanum: The Provinces from Augustus to Aurelian 309 Chapter 8 Asia Minor and Imperial Administration under the Principate 361 Chapter 9 Economic, Socio-Political, and Cultural Conditions in the Provinces of the Imperial Period 396 Chapter 10 Epilogue and Outlook 550 Appendix 553 Notes 629 Bibliography 691 Index of Authors and Editors Cited in the Bibliography 727 Index Locorum 733 Index 747
Christian Marek is professor emeritus of ancient history at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His fields of research are the ancient cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, from Archaic Greece to early Byzantium, and Greek epigraphy. He specializes in Asia Minor and has been conducting epigraphical and archaeological fieldwork in Turkey for more than thirty years.
"An expansive, formidable work of scholarship that should prove indispensable to students of the Near East."--Publishers Weekly "[W]ide-ranging, yet thoughtfully organized and amply illustrated... [In the Land of a Thousand Gods] is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in Asia Minor and in the broader cultural exchange between East and West."--Foreword Reviews "Marek's survey combines formidably erudite synthesis with high readability... Marek's work deserves to become the leading handbook on its subject."--Tony Spawforth, Literary Review "This superbly researched work, named from a line in a Hittite oath and authored by an archaeologist and emeritus professor at the University of Zurich, is a political, military, social, and cultural history, illustrated in black and white, of pre-Byzantine Turkey, starting in the Paleolithic and ending in the early fourth century CE... Translated beautifully into English from German."--Choice "[A] magnificent reference work... If you are seeking THE definitive ancient history of Asia Minor, look no further: this is clearly going to be the gold standard on the subject for a long time to come. Don't skip it!"--Regarp
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