Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Sources and their uses
- 2 Sparta as victor
- 3 Persia
- 4 The Corinthian War
- 5 Sicily, 413–368 B.C.
- 6 The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy
- 7 Thebes in the 360s B.C.
- 8 Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours
- 8a Asia Minor
- 8b Mesopotamia, 482–330 B.C.
- 8c Judah
- 8d Cyprus and Phoenicia
- 8e Egypt, 404–332 B.C.
- 9 Regional surveys II: the West and North
- 10 Society and economy
- 11 The polis and the alternatives
- 12 Greek culture and science
- 13 Dion and Timoleon
- 14 Macedon and north-west Greece
- 15 Macedonian hegemony created
- 16 Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign
- 17 Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories
- 18 Epilogue
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Map 1: Greece and Western Asia Minor
- Map 9: Egypt
- Map 20: Alexanders campaigns
- References
8a - Asia Minor
from 8 - Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- 1 Sources and their uses
- 2 Sparta as victor
- 3 Persia
- 4 The Corinthian War
- 5 Sicily, 413–368 B.C.
- 6 The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy
- 7 Thebes in the 360s B.C.
- 8 Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours
- 8a Asia Minor
- 8b Mesopotamia, 482–330 B.C.
- 8c Judah
- 8d Cyprus and Phoenicia
- 8e Egypt, 404–332 B.C.
- 9 Regional surveys II: the West and North
- 10 Society and economy
- 11 The polis and the alternatives
- 12 Greek culture and science
- 13 Dion and Timoleon
- 14 Macedon and north-west Greece
- 15 Macedonian hegemony created
- 16 Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign
- 17 Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories
- 18 Epilogue
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Map 1: Greece and Western Asia Minor
- Map 9: Egypt
- Map 20: Alexanders campaigns
- References
Summary
A speaker in Xenophon's Hellenica describes Temnos, a small city north of Smyrna (Izmir) in the Aeolid, as a place in the Persian King's Asia ‘where one could nevertheless live without being one of the King's subjects’ (IV.8.5: 390s). This is a paradox: how could a city escape ‘subjection’ to the king in whose territory it lay? The solution lies in the nature of Persian control of Asia Minor in the fourth century. That control was indirect, respectful of (or indifferent to) local autonomy, and, by the standards of ancient imperialism, light. Because of the amount of documentary evidence, chiefly inscriptions on stone, from fourth-century Asia Minor, we are better informed about Persian rule in that part of its empire than about any other group of satrapies (which is not to say that Asia Minor conditions were reproduced elsewhere). By far the greatest part of the evidence comes from the south-west corner of Anatolia, the satrapy of Caria. This region was ruled in the two generations between 400 and Alexander by a vigorous native dynasty, the Hecatomnids. The dynasty's best known member was Mausolus. But Lycia, and the area round Dascylium on the sea of Marmara (Propontis), are also rich in remains from the 200-year period of cultural confrontation with Greece (546–334), as are parts of Lydia further into the interior.
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- The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 209 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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