Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This book aims to cover the chronology of Lydian studies from the protohistoric period to the beginning of the Byzantine period and to bring together the contributions of international researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines that includes history, archeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, and from different perspectives. The various studies discuss society, social structures, military aspects, economy, religion, arts, architecture, and material culture. This diachronic approach makes it possible in particular to question continuity and discontinuity between the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, as well as with those that preceded them.
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté
Place of publication: Besançon
Published on OpenEdition Books: December 5, 2025
Digital ISBN: 978-2-38549-154-3
DOI: 10.4000/15a6qSeries: Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité (ISTA)
Year of publication: 2023
ISBN (Print version): 978-2-84867-953-2
Number of pages: 537
Antonio Gonzales
ForewordErgün Laflı and Guy Labarre
An introduction to Lydian studiesPart I Lydia in the third and second millennia B.C.
Michele R. Cataudella
Aššuwa, Ἀσία and the land of LydiansPart II Historical and other aspects of the Lydian period and the early Lydians
Alexandar Portalsky
Chronology of the Lydian dynastiesAnnick Payne and David Sasseville
Malis: a new Lydian goddessDiether Schürr
Lefs: a Greek god in Lydian disguise. Ζευσις: a Lydian god in Greek disguise, and some Luwian gods tooFred C. Woudhuizen
Determining the value of the arrow-sign in Phrygian and LydianTamás Péter Kisbali
Influencing Lydia: the “Kybele shrine” from Sardis in its Near Eastern and Greek contextsYanis Pikoulas
Some remarks on the Persian Royal Road (Herodotus, V.52-54)Annalisa Paradiso
Diodorus and the Halys oracleJames Roy
The poet Pindar and Lydian PelopsCostel Chiriac and Lucian Munteanu
Lydian seals from the western Pontic areaLiviu Mihail Iancu
“Who is Gyges?” once again: assessing the Carian connections of the first Mermnad king of LydiaCinzia Susanna Bearzot
Pissuthnes, satrap of LydiaFabienne Colas-Rannou
Lydian and Lycian arts in the context of Achaemenid Anatolia: a comparative approachErgün Laflı and Maurizio Buora
Replicating the Lydian treasure from a Turkish perspectivePart III Historical and other aspects on Hellenistic and Roman Lydia
Pierre-Oliver Hochard
The historical geography of Hellenistic and imperial Lydia: the literary and numismatic evidenceGaetano Arena
Heleis: a chief physician in Roman LydiaMargherita G. Cassia
Medicine in Roman Lydia: a close relationship with imperial powerHüseyin Üreten and Ömer Güngörmüş
Remarks on the imperial cult of Lydian Philadelphia based on classical textual sourcesGuy Labarre
The cult of Men in LydiaCharles Guittard
An amazing oracle of Apollo of Claros and the question of the supreme god (Macrobius, Saturnalia, I.18.20): Zeus, Hades, Helios, Dionysos, and IaôPart IV Material culture of Hellenistic and Roman Lydia
Ergün Laflı
A preliminary report on the recent archaeological discoveries in Lydia and the Upper Cayster ValleyMaria Kantirea
Building inscriptions from Roman LydiaErik Hrnčiarik and Lucia Nováková
Anatolian koine of burial practices: transformation of elite burialsOğuz Koçyiğit
A preliminary report on the Roman pottery from TabaeJulia Cecile Martin
The use of fired Roman bricks in Lydia and neighbouring regionsEnes Hançer
An archaeological note on SaittaiPart V Early Byzantine Lydia
Dimitris P. Drakoulis
A contribution to the study of Lydia in the Early Byzantine periodPart VI Varia anatolica occidentalia
Giorgio Rızzo
Ephesian amphorae in Rome in the imperial period
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