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Book SynopsisThe Seleukids, the easternmost of the Greekspeaking dynasties which succeeded Alexander the Great, were long portrayed as weak, doomed to decline after the death of their first king, Seleukos. Yet they succeeded in ruling much of the Near and Middle East for over two centuries. In this book international scholars argue 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 rather in knowing how to tie the new, frequently non-Greek, nobility to the king through mutual recognition of sovereignty.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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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