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 Mémoire – 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.

Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations   Eva Mortensen and Birte Poulsen Preface   Introduction   Martina Seifert Constructing Memories: Gateways between Identity and Socio-Political Pluralism in Ancient Western Asia Minor   Cityscapes of Remembrance   Eva-Maria Mohr and Klaus Rheidt Cityscape and Places of Memory in Assos   Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan Nothing to Remember? Redesigning the Ancient City of Assos in the Byzantine Era   Anthony Shannon Glory be to (Insert Name Here): Civic Memory, Political Discourse, and Municipal Ruler Cult in Hellenistic Teos   Orhan Bingöl Das Stadtbild von Magnesia am Mäander nach den 30-jährigen Ausgrabungen (Kurzfassung)   Eva Mortensen Narratives and Shared Memories of Heroes in the Aphrodisian Cityscape   Jacques des Courtils The City of Xanthus: “Lieu de mémoire” of the Lycians   Kai Töpfer Expressing Civic Self-Perception and Constructing Identity – Public Imagery in Roman Asia Minor   Recollections of the Past in Public Civic Monuments   Ulrich Mania Gymnasia: From a Space to an Institution of Remembrance   Günther Schörner Representing and Remembering Rituals in Public Space: Depictions of Sacrifice in Roman Asia Minor   Ute Lohner-Urban Aspects of Public Memory at the East Gate of Side   Representations of Memories and Identities in the Private Sphere   Elisabeth Rathmayr Identity in the Private Sphere: Interpreting Houses as Loci Reflecting the Identity of Their Inhabitants   Christoph Baier A P(a)lace of Remembrance? Reflections on the Historical Depth of a Monumental Domus in Ephesos   Narratives of Remembrance in a Religious Context   Ergün Lafli Die Sitzstatue eines Dichters aus Klaros   Helene Blinkenberg Hastrup Ephesus and the Amazons: Remembering or Recreating the Early History of a Greek Polis in the 5th Century BC   Monica Livadiotti and Giorgio Rocco Building the Route Over Time: Memory of a Processional Road in Kos   Luigi Caliò Building Memory on the Route: for a Visual Reconstruction of Festive Processions in Kos   Mustafa Şahin Der Apollo Archegetes Heiligtum auf der Asar Insel bei Myndos   Katy Opitz Two Cities – One Goddess? The Transfer of Ancient Cities in the Hellenistic Period and the Reinterpretation of Older Cults: The Example of Heracleia under Latmus   Commemoration of the Dead   Benedikt Grammer Material Culture as Marker of Ethnicity? The Burial Mounds of Kolophon and the Question of “Lydian”, “Greek”, and “Ionian” Identity   Martin Steskal Defying Death in Ephesus: Strategies of Commemoration in a Roman Metropolis   Poul Pedersen The Totenmahl Tradition in Classical Western Asia Minor and the Maussolleion at Halikarnassos   Ilaria Romeo A Distant Memory: New Seleucid Portraits in Roman Hierapolis   Laurence Cavalier Memorials to the Lycian Dead   Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail MNHMA. Commemorative Inscriptions – Mirrors of Common Identity: The Epigraphic Habit in Ancient and Modern Funerary Spaces Compared