Karian, Greek or Roman? The layered identites of Stratonikeia via the sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina

In the Greek world after Alexander the Great, urbanization took place at an unprecedented rate and scale. Based on the Greek model of the polis, this introduced a new landscape of social and political organizations, which had a great impact on the complexities of local and regional identities and how these were displayed. Religion played an important role in this process. As case study for these issues, this article examines how Stratonikeia in Karia (Asia Minor) used the sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina as an instrument to integrate the social and political identity of the local Karian population into the interstate world of Greek civic networks and Roman authority.