SELGIAN AGONES IN THE LIGHT OF INSCRIPTIONS

Agonistic festivals are perhaps the most important religious and cultural activity of the Greco-Roman world and have maintained its popularity and are phenomenon that have marked the history of culture since the first day. Prior to the Hellenistic Period, Colonial movements initiated by the Greeks, while preparing the ground for the formation of a new Greek cities in Asia Minor, on the other hand it has led to the spread of Hellenic culture and religious elements of the city in Asia Minor. Hellenistic culture, which spread to wide geographical with Alexander the Great s Asia campaign, increasingly rooted in Anatolia. Following this process, agonistic festivals, which were the most important religious city, the cultural and social activity of the era, began to organize firstly in the cities where compose of most of the Greek people, then in almost all cities of the Asia minor. Compared to other parts of Asia, Pisidian cities start to organize agonistic festival in the later periods and when reached to the Roman Imperial Period, it becomes competing with the rest of the city by revealing its potential in this regard. In the scope of this study, the agonistic festivals organized in Selge, one of the most important cities of the region, are examined.