Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre. “The Collapse of Empire at Gordion in the Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World”

The article is an expanded version of a paper that the Author had presented at a symposium on Sardis in the Hellenistic period in 2017. Thanks to this re-working of the original (and already published) paper, the Author can trace an extremely rich portrait of Gordion within and between the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods, summarizing published and unpublished archaeological, historical and environmental evidence on interconnected social, economic, religious aspects of this city’s life. The..