Hellenistik ve Roma Döneminde Grekçe Metinlerde Anadolu Tanrıları ve Adları


Önder Kaddar S., De Hoz García Bellido M. P., Sayar M. H.

AB Destekli Diğer Projeler, 2022 - 2026

  • Proje Türü: AB Destekli Diğer Projeler
  • Başlama Tarihi: Eylül 2022
  • Bitiş Tarihi: Eylül 2026

Proje Özeti

The Complutense University of Madrid project "Anatolian gods and their names in Greek texts of the Hellenistic and Roman period" belongs to the coordinated project Anatolian gods and their names (continuity, importation, interaction): A philological and linguistic approach (GOAP), based at the University of Barcelona, to which also belong the related subprojects The Anatolian gods and their names in the direct sources of the Anatolian languages of the first millennium (Barcelona) and The Anatolian gods and their names in the Hittite and Luwian sources of the second millennium (University of Santiago de Compostela). The unifying aim of the coordinated project is to analyse, study, systematise and publicise, by means of a database, our knowledge of the Anatolian gods and their theonymy (and related anthroponymy and toponymy) from the second millennium to their survival in Greek sources from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The projects approach draws on previous linguistic and religious studies that have asserted with certainty the survival of the so-called Luwic dialects in the Southwest and South of the Anatolian peninsula, as well as the survival of religious Hittite and Luwian features from the second millennium to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in Asia Minor. While the subprojects in Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona will focus, respectively, on the study of the gods and theonymy from the second and the first millennia, the aim of the UCM-based project is to study the gods and their names in Greek texts from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. These textual sources, although mainly epigraphic, are also complemented by the study of literary texts such as some works by Pausanias, Elio Aristides or Lucian, and some passages from novels that, due to their particular characteristics, bear witness to the names of indigenous divinities and to issues regarding realia, beliefs and religious habits of very ancient origin. The project will also deal with the theonymic documentation provided by the Phrygian texts in bilingual Greek-Phrygian inscriptions of the Hellenistic and especially Roman periods, as well as by the indispensable complementary source of Phrygian inscriptions from the Archaic and Classical periods. Since the analysis of the textual sources relies on three basic concepts, namely, continuity, importation, and interaction, special attention will be paid not only to the survival of the religious phenomenon throughout this long chronological period, but also to the process through which theonymic and cultic elements were imported from other cultures, mainly Semitic and Iranian, to the Anatolian region and to the interaction, of varying intensity depending on the periods and regions, of Asia Minor with such elements. By bringing together three different teams with the knowledge and skills to study the different phases of this extensive timeframe, the coordinated project will be able to undertake an overall study of the evolution and survival of Anatolian gods and their designations (names, epithets) and thus provide as complete a picture of this field as the existing documentation will allow.