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Sagalassus

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Sagalassos (Greek Σαγαλασσός): Hellenistic and Roman city in Pisisia (southwestern Anatolia); modern Ağlasun.

The hill on which the Sagalassians defended thei city against Alexander the Great

Already mentioned in Hittite sources of the fourteenth century BCE (Salawassa)
334/333 BCE: Alexander the Great (text)
Seleucid period: temple for Apollo (= Sozon)
Other Hellenized indigenous gods for Zeus, Athena, Heracles, Hermes
Some other gods, like Men, retained their ancient names
After 188 BCE: part of the Pergamene Empire
c.100 BCE: Bouleuterion
s.I BCE: Doric temple (probably dedicated to Zeus)

Sagalassus, Hellenistic Fountain

Sagalassus, Bouleuterion

Sagalassus, Prytaneum

Sagalassus, Odeon

Antonine Nymphaeum

At the Lower Agora, the temple of Apollo is rededicated to house the emperors too
During the reign of Antoninus Pius, a special temple for the imperial cult
At the same time: several new monuments like the Antonine Nymphaeum, with splendid sculpture
Introduction of the cults of Isis and Sarapis
Christianity becomes popular in the fourth century; there is a Byzantine church
c. 400 CE: Fortifications
Earthquake in 518; Justinian's Plague in 541-543
Abandoned c.650 CE

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Sagalassus, Rock Tombs	Sagalassus, Poseidon	Marcus Aurelius	Sagalassus, Theater
Sagalassus, Roman Baths	Sagalassus, Upper Agora	Sagalassus, Christian oil lamp	Sagalassus, Byzantine Church