Caria and Crete in Antiquity: Cultural Interaction Between Anatolia and the Aegean

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
A Note on Transliteration and Translation
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Approaching the Topic of Carian– Cretan Interaction
	The Carian–Cretan Connection
	Caria and Crete in the Maritime Itineraries of the Mediterranean
	The Labrys and the Labyrinth
	Network Formation and Cultural Exchange
	Approaching Carian– Cretan Interaction
1 Articulating a ‘Carian’ Identity
	‘The Carians of Barbarian Speech’
	Language and Identity
	Delimiting ‘Caria’ and the ‘Carians’
2 The Role of Crete in the Mythologies, Local Histories and Cults of Caria
	Ancient Engagement with the Past
	Sarpedon, Miletos and Kaunos
	The ‘Minoan’ Ports of Anatolia
	The Krētinaion of Magnesia-on-the-Maeander
	The Carian Kouretes
	Reading Mythological Traditions
3 The Case of Miletos: Archaeology and Mythology
	The Processes of Transmission and the Question of Origins
	Late Bronze Age Miletos
	Minoan and Mycenaean Contacts with Southwestern Anatolia
	Western Anatolia in the Hittite Sources
	Caria on the Interface
	Miletos: Continuities and Innovation
4 Interaction and the Reception of the Cretan Connection during the Hellenistic Period
	Tracing Interaction between Caria and Crete
	The Cretan Decrees from Mylasa
	Cretan Diplomacy and Cretan Piracy
	Contextualising the Mylasan Inscriptions
	The Role of the Past in Diplomatic Discourse
5 Inscribing History at Magnesia-on-the-Maeander: Civic Engagement with the Past
	Inscribing History
	The Civic Context of the ‘Origin Myth’
	Shaping the Past
6 A ‘Cretan-Born’ Zeus in Caria: Religious Mobility between Caria and Crete
	The Evidence
	Dynastic Influence vs. Local Dynamics
	The Constitutional Reforms at Euromos
	Interaction and Religious Mobility
	Interpreting the Carian Cults of Zeus Kretagenes/Kretagenetas
Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1: I. Magnesia 17
Appendix 2: The ‘Cretan Dossier’ of Mylasa
References
Index