Editing Mausolus (section)

=== 'Hellenisation' and the Ionian Renaissance ===

Mausolus embraced [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenic culture]] to an extent. It is debated whether Caria underwent "Hellenisation", "Carianisation", or a complex combination of the two (e.g. [[creolisation]]<ref name="Carstens 2009">{{cite book |last1=Carstens |first1=Anne Marie |title=Karia and the Hekatomnids. The creation of a dynasty |date=2009 |publisher=Archaeopress |location=Oxford |isbn=9781407304236 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZ0MAQAAMAAJ}}</ref>), under his watch.<ref name="Hornblower 1982" /><ref name="LaBuff (2013)">{{cite journal |last1=LaBuff |first1=Jeremy |title=Who(')s(e) Karian? Language, Names, and Identity |journal=The Ancient History Bulletin |date=2013 |volume=27 |issue=3–4 |pages=86–107 |url=https://www.academia.edu/7335802}}</ref><ref name="Herda 2013">{{cite book |last=Herda |first=Alexander |editor-last1=Mouton |editor-first1=Alice |editor-last2=Rutherford |editor-first2=Ian |editor-last3=Yakubovich |editor-first3=Ilya |title=Luwian Identities. Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean |date=2013 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |pages=421–506 |chapter=Greek (and our) Views on the Karians |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/3498385}}</ref><ref name="Pedersen 2013">{{cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Poul |editor-last1=Henry |editor-first1=Olivier |title=4th Century Karia. Defining a Karian identity under the Hekatomnids |date=2013 |publisher=Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil |location=Istanbul |chapter=The 4th century BC 'Ionian Renaissance' and Karian identity |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=33–64 |chapter-url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2013_ant_28_1_1282}}</ref>

All the original construction at Halicarnassus was distinctive of the so-called Ionian Renaissance, which the Hecatomnids sponsored throughout their territories, and which continued in the early [[Hellenistic Period]] at sites such as [[Priene]].<ref name="Pedersen 1994">{{cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Poul |editor-last1=Isager |editor-first1=Jacob |title=Hekatomnid Caria and the Ionian Renaissance. Acts of the International Symposium at the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, Odense University, 28-29 November, 1991
|date=1994 |publisher=Odense University Press |location=Odense |chapter=The Ionian Renaissance and some aspects of its origin within the field of architecture and planning |pages=11–35 |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/45034712}}</ref><ref name="Pedersen 2013" /><ref name="Pedersen 2021">{{cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Poul |editor-last1=Pedersen |editor-first1=Poul |editor-last2=Poulsen |editor-first2=Birte |editor-last3=Lund |editor-first3=John |title=Karia and the Dodekanese: Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean. Vol. I: Late Classical to Early Hellenistic |date=2021 |publisher=Oxbow |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1-78925-511-9 |chapter=From Classical to Hellenistic: the Maussolleion and the Ionian Renaissance}}</ref> Many cities and religious centres in and around Caria bear features of the Ionian Renaissance following direct sponsorship by Mausolus and his family.