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From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers (2024)
Book
Draycott, C. M., Branting, S., Lehner, J. W., & Özarslan, Y. (Eds.). (2024). From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers. British Institute at Ankara

The period of Anatolian history between the death of the semi-legendary king Midas of Gordion ca 700 BC and the advent of the Achaemenid Persian Empire ca 550 BC is dominated by certain narratives: the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom, from Gyges t... Read More about From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories. Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers.

Activating the Achaemenid Landscape. The Broken Lion Tomb (Yılan Taş) and the Phrygian Highlands in the Achaemenid Period (2019)
Book Chapter
Draycott, C. M. (2019). Activating the Achaemenid Landscape. The Broken Lion Tomb (Yılan Taş) and the Phrygian Highlands in the Achaemenid Period. In G. R. Tsetskhladze (Ed.), Phrygia in antiquity : from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period (189-220). Peeters Press

In its day the collapsed, massive rock-cut tomb known as the Broken Lion Tomb, or Yılan Taş, located in the Köhnüş Valley north of Afyon, would have been one of the most impressive tomb monuments in Asia Minor. Now lying in a pile of confused blocks... Read More about Activating the Achaemenid Landscape. The Broken Lion Tomb (Yılan Taş) and the Phrygian Highlands in the Achaemenid Period.

CARIA, CRETE AND FOUNDATION MYTHS. (N.) Carless Unwin Caria and Crete in Antiquity. Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean. Pp. xx + 266, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (2018)
Journal Article
Draycott, C. M. (2019). CARIA, CRETE AND FOUNDATION MYTHS. (N.) Carless Unwin Caria and Crete in Antiquity. Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean. Pp. xx + 266, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Classical Review, 69(1), 186-188. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x18002652

Making meaning of myth. On the interpretation of mythological imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor (2018)
Book Chapter
Draycott, C. M. (2018). Making meaning of myth. On the interpretation of mythological imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor. In L. Audley-Miller, & B. Dignas (Eds.), Wandering myths : transcultural uses of myth in the ancient world (23-70). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421453-004

Introduction: what lies beyond (2016)
Book Chapter
Draycott, C. M. (2016). Introduction: what lies beyond. In C. M. Draycott, & M. Stamatopoulou (Eds.), Dining and death : interdisciplinary perspectives on the 'Funerary banquet' in ancient art, burial and belief (1-32). Peeters Publishers