The aim of this book is to reconstruct the history and the religious life in Phrygia from the
Bronze Age up to the Late Antiquity period. The documentary [archaeological evidence
inscriptions coins e.g.] and literary sources show that sacred ideas and rituals which
already existed in the Bronze Age have continued to exist as a substrate over the centuries
until the spread of Christianity. Since various people Anatolians Greeks Iranians Jews and
Romans lived together with their own religions in Phrygia over the centuries this region is
an ideal research field to study the syncretism and the contact among religious communities.
