Pergamon Micro-Region

When you walk through the ruins of the ancient city of Pergamon today or look at the 3D reconstruction of the ancient city hill, you inevitably ask yourself where the many building stones for the countless streets, houses and monumental buildings came from. Where the stones were quarried and by what routes were they transported to the city and up the steep city hill? Similar questions are also being asked in our current TransPergMicro project. In interdisciplinary groups we investigate the building economy between the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods.

In antiquity, people’s relationship with nature was strongly influenced by religion. Natural phenomena such as thunder and lightning, but also the dawn or the ripening of crops were associated with the intervention of divine powers. People turned to them for blessings or protection from harm by the forces of nature, which were perceived as omnipotent.

In der Antike war das Verhältnis der Menschen zur Natur stark von der Religion geprägt. Naturphänomene wie Blitz und Donner, aber auch die Morgenröte oder das Reifen der Feldfrüchte wurden mit dem Wirken göttlicher Mächte in Verbindung gebracht. An sie wandte man sich mit der Bitte um Segen oder den Schutz vor Unheil durch die als allmächtig empfundenen Naturkräfte.

Antik çağda insanın doğayla olan ilişkisi, çok güçlü bir şekilde din üzerinden şekillenmekteydi. Gök gürültüsü ve şimşek gibi doğa olaylarının yanı sıra şafak vakti ya da ekinlerin olgunlaşması da ilahi güçlerle ilişkilendirilirdi. İnsanlar, her şeye kadir olarak algılanan bu güçlere doğanın gazabından korunmak ya da onun bereketini dilemek için dua ederlerdi.