Lydian and the Languages of the Achaemenid Empire

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Elena Martínez-Rodríguez

Yayın yılı:

2025

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en

The so-called Lydian Empire met its end in 546 bce when Harpagus, the Median general of Cyrus the Great, sacked and destroyed Sardis during his military campaign in Anatolia.Under the reign of its last king, Croesus, the Lydian power-which had already incorporated the former Phrygian power into its territory-had expanded its borders beyond the regions of the Halys River.Prior to that, interactions between the Lydians and their Iranian neighbors in the east are indirectly referred to by later Greek historiographical sources.2Most of the Lydian inscriptions date from the Achaemenid period, which appears to have been a prosperous and wealthy moment for the Lydians that lasted until Alexander's conquest of Anatolia in 333 bce.Although Sardis was established as one of the main administrative centers of the Achaemenid power in the west, the Iranian names and titles related to the Persian domination in Lydian are, paradoxically, fewer than in Lycian, which remained mostly under the control of local rulers.However, this reduced number may be illusory, for the compilation of Lydian loanwords is conditioned by our incomplete understanding of this language.Neither can we rule out the possibility that this contradictory situation reflects Lycian efforts to show a favorable inclination toward the Achaemenid power by adopting, especially, personal names, thereby producing the external effect of a marked Iranization.The treatment of the Iranian material is subject to some methodological …

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