The Seleukid Empire 281-222 BC

War Within the Family

Buch | Hardcover

323 Seiten

2018
Classical Press of Wales (Verlag)
9781910589717 (ISBN)

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The Seleukids, the easternmost of the Greekspeaking dynasties which succeeded Alexander the Great, were long portrayed by historians as inherently weak and doomed to decline after the passing of their remarkable first king, Seleukos (died 281 BC). And yet they succeeded in ruling much of the Near and Middle East for over two centuries, overcoming problems of a multi-ethnic empire. In this book an international team of scholars argues that in the decades after Seleukos the empire developed flexible structures that successfully bound it together in the face of a series of catastrophes. The strength of the Seleukid realm lay not simply in its vast swathes of territory, but more in knowing how to tie the new, frequently non-Greek, nobility to the king through mutual recognition of sovereignty.

KYLE ERICKSON teaches Ancient History at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where he is Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Performing Arts. His primary research interest is the political and cultural interactions between the Greek world and the Near East, particularly as expressed in iconography and coinage.

Introduction Kyle Erickson
1 Dispelling Seleukid phantoms: Macedonians in Western Asia Minor from Alexander to the Attalids Stephen Mitchell
2 The House of Achaios: reconstructing an early client dynasty of Seleukid Anatolia Alex McAuley
3 Asia Minor and the many shades of a civil war. Observations on Achaios the Younger and his claim to the kingdom of Anatolia Monica D’Agostini
4 Seleukos, Zeus and the dynastic cult at Seleukeia in Pieria Nicholas L. Wright
5 The ideology of Seleukid joint kingship: the case of Seleukos, son of Antiochos I John Russell Holton
6 The coming of the Parthians: crisis and resilience in the reign of Seleukos II Rolf Strootman
7 Rethinking the relationship between Hellenistic Baktria and the Seleukid Empire Richard Wenghofer
8 Iranian identity and Seleukid allegiance: Vahbarz, the Frataraka and early Arsakid coinage David Engels
9 The War of Brothers, the Third Syrian War, and the Battle of Ankyra (246–241 BC): a re-appraisal Altay Cos¸kun
10 Antiochos Soter and the Third Syrian War Kyle Erickson
Bibliography
Index
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Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Hellenistic World
Verlagsort	Swansea
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	750 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781910589717 / 9781910589717
Zustand	Neuware