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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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43° XL A PAM EI A.

an inscription of Poimanenon, mentioning ' those who are in alliance
in respect of participation in the Soteria and the Mucia,' i. e. who are
in alliance with Pergamos1. So doubtless Ephesos and Apameia
made an agreement about participation in certain festivals.

Apameia ranked as a Greek city; one of its citizens is mentioned,
no. 2>33> as delegate to the Panhellemon or general council of Hel-
lenes, held at Athens. The Panhellenion seems to have been founded
by Hadrian, in furtherance of a scheme for reinvigorating Greek
feeling and love for Greek antiquities2; and many of the great cities
of Asia belonged to it, e.g. Aizanoi LW 867, Magnesia CIG 2910. It
is clear that about Hadrian's time native feeling and national pride
in the eastern provinces sprang into new and more vigorous life.
He seems to have abandoned the earlier idea of romanizing the east,
and to have treated the native sentiment as a useful element in
a wider conception of the imperial unity of the nations. Now the
name Kelainai seems to have been revived in the second century, for
Dio Chrysostom, Maximus Tyrius, and Pausanias (two of whom at
least had visited the city, while the third belonged to Magnesia Sip.
and is full of accurate information about the cities of Asia), all use
it and avoid the name Apameia ; and we are justified in regarding
this revival of the old name as due to the reinvigorated national
sentiment. The title Kelaineus was given to gods on the coins § 21,
the hero Kelainos was mentioned on them, and the old Kelainian
myths were painted on public buildings and represented on the coins,
§ 20. All this was quite consistent with the Hellenic claims of the
city; for the Phrygian Marsyas was treated as almost a Greek
hero now.

The powerful Jewish colony in Apameia is described in Ch. XV,
and the early history of Christianity in the city comes under Ch. XII.

During the second and the early third century there reigned
a wonderful prosperity in Asia. The inscriptions show that there
was a general spirit of content and comfort, and a great deal of
money in the country. This was due partly to the long-continued
peace, partly to the general feeling of security and confidence pro-

1 01 iv ttj 'Ao-m 8ijfj.oi. (cp. inscr. Eplies. Mous. Smyrn. tts). The Mucia at Per-

BCH 1881 p. 348) Ka\ t<i Z6vt) kcu al ttoXus gamos (Cicero II Very. II 21, 51) were

Kai oi kcit civSpa KiKpijilvoi iv 777 wpos tovs instituted in honour of Mucius Scaevola

'Papaiovs (pikia (i. e. in amicorum formu- procos. 98 B. C, the Soteria commemo-

lam relati CIL I 203) Kai tS>v SKKav oi rated Zeus Soter, the saviour from the

€v\tmovdot y€\v6p.evoi rcovlcoTrjpioiv Ka\ T&v Gauls.

MoiHciciW Mordtmann in .4tfi. Mitth. 1890 2 Qeos 'ASpinros naycXAijMoj CIG 3832

p. 157 (cp. a similar inscr. LW 1761 6, add, 3833.
 
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