@article{article_440962, title={Griechische Grabepigramme in Karien – Zeugnisse der Hellenisierung der lokalen Bevölkerung?}, journal={PHILIA}, volume={Suppl. 1}, pages={435–453}, year={2016}, author={Hoffmann-salz, Julia}, keywords={Karia,Helenleşme,yerel seçkinler,mezar epigramları,kültürel aktarım}, abstract={<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 14px;">Caria is surprisingly rich in inscriptions and particularly in funerary epigrams. This essay tries to interpret Carian funerary epigrams in the context of the regions political and cultural deve­lop­ment down to the Roman conquest. Caria had been in contact with the Greek civilization from its earliest days and received a large number of Greek settlers along its coast in the age of the Great Colonization. Particularly for the hinterland, however, it was the Hellenistic Age that brought the local people under Greek political and cultural influence. All the while, a strong Carian indigenous identity can be detected in the entire region not only in the use of the Carian language, but also e.g. in the local funerary architecture, that was strongly inspired by Greek and Eastern influences but used these to create a specifically Carian style. However, the funerary epigrams seem to show no such particularly Carian traits in respect to its themes, the values attributed to the dead, the re­ci­pients or even initiators of the inscriptions. They must thus be understood as identity markers for the local Greek elites who did not wish for variation but in contrast for a traditional and recognize­able form to show off their status and cultural background. </span> </div>}, publisher={Kabalcı Yayıncılık}