The Power of Zeus Bronton: Notes on a New Miracle Narrative
Authors : Jan-mathieu CARBON
Pages : 161-168
Doi:10.37095/gephyra.1328137
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Publication Date : 2023-11-12
Article Type : Research
Abstract :N. Eda Akyürek Şahin and Hüseyin Uzunoğlu have recently published an interesting dedica-tion to Zeus Bronton from the 2nd-3rd century A.D. in this journal (Gephyra 23, 2022, 119-120 no. 19, with phs.). Following an attempt to further elucidate the text, this inscription is here identified as a narrative account of the power of Zeus Bronton. While the inscription finds a place in a growing number of documents about the worship of this god in Phrygia Epiktetos, it also reveals important parallels with the so-called "confession stelai” from Lydia, though it comes from about 200 km away and employs somewhat different vocabulary. More broadly, I argue that the text is to be situated within a wider genre of miracle narrative or aretalogy that is particularly prominent in the epigraphic evidence from Anatolia, but far from unique to it.Keywords : Zeus Bronton, Bithynia, Phrygia Epiktetos, itiraf stelleri, mucize anlatısı, aretaloji