Alexander the Great introduced the attribution of cult-type honours to the ruler. From the beginning of the 3rd century BC onwards this practice was adopted by the monarchs and successors of Alexander, who were honoured in a god-like manner, with sacrifices, altars, statues, temples, priests, processions, festivals, epithets, etc. The cult was organized on two levels. On the city level, the cult was established through a decree as a token of thanksgiving for the benefactions of the ruler....

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The cult of the Roman emperors was one of the most widespread cults in Asia Minor. It was directly connected with the Roman power and the economic development of the cities.

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Magic was disseminated in Asia Minor with the Persian conquest (546 BC). It is mainly testified by three types of archaeological and epigraphical finds: curse tablets, kolossoi and phylacteries. It became particularly widespread in the Imperial period and survived even after the predominance of Christianity.

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Although the religious culture of the Graeco-Roman world was polytheistic, monotheistic beliefs were widespread throughout the ancient world in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods. Asia Minor has provided a substantial quantity of evidence for monotheistic cults. The most important is a group of about 300 inscriptions dated between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD. Moreover, the overall evidence has led to the conclusion that contemporary monotheistic systems not only originate...

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The Orphic cult forms a set of beliefs whose origins are traced in the Orphic literature. The Orphic religion had taken its name after Orpheus and propably hadn’t existed before the 6th century BC. Its first appearance is attested in South Italy and the Black Sea, while it was related to the Pythagorean philosophy and some Near Eastern and Egyptian beliefs.