TY - BOOK AU - Oetjen,Roland AU - Cohen,Getzel M. TI - New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics: studies in honor of Getzel M. Cohen T2 - Beiträge zur Altertumskunde SN - 9783110283785 AV - DS96.2 .N49 2020 U1 - 939.43 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Seleucus KW - Seleucids KW - Séleucides KW - fast KW - Syria KW - History KW - 333 B.C.-634 A.D KW - Syrie KW - Histoire KW - 333 av. J.-C.-634 N1 - Includes bibliographical references; "Bibliography of Getzel Cohen": pages xvi-xvii; Preface; Roland Oetjen --; Bibliography of Getzel Cohen --; The rise of the Seleucids; The armed forces of Seleukos I, with help from coins; G. G. Aperghis --; Seleukos and military unrest in the army of Alexander the Great; Lee L. Brice --; The burial of Seleucus I Nicator in Appian (Syr. 63) : a replica of the Ptolemaic eponymous cult?; Ivan Ladynin --; What impelled Simonides of Magnesia to glorify Antiochos I; Francis X. Ryan --; Monarchy and empire; No island is a man : Antiochus III's marriage to "Euboea"; Paul Kosmin --; The restoration of the temple in Jerusalem by the Seleukid state : II Macc. 11.16-38; John Ma --; On the Seleucid and Attalid syntaxis; Maxim M. Kholod --; An economic model of Greek Euergetism; Roland Oetjen --; The great kings of Asia : imperial titulature in the Seleukid and post-Seleukid Middle East; Rolf Strootman --; Draped royal busts on the coinage of the early Seleucids; Catherine C. Lorber, Panaglotis P. Iossif --; Dynastic connections; "He shall give him the daughter of women ..." : Ptolemaic queens in the Seleukid house; Sheila Ager --; A case of Stratonicas : two royal women between three Hellenistic monarchies; Oleg Gabelko, Yuri Kuzmin --; The Pontic kingdom and the Seleucids; Sergey Saprykin --; The fabric of empire; Seleukid land and native populations : Laodike II and the competition for power in Asia Minor and Babylonia; Gillian Ramsey --; The trading links of a Seleukid settlement : Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates; Grame Clarke, Heather Jackson, C. E. V. Nixon, John Tidmarsh --; The Hasmoneans' attitude towards cities; Edward Dąbrowa --; The city organization in the Seleucid southern Levant : some archeological evidence and prospects; Gerald Finkielsztejn --; On the periphery of the Seleucid kingdom : Failaka revisited; Lise Hannestad --; Place-names and plant-names : notes on the provenance and etymology of some flora from Hellenistic Phoenicia; Henry Innes MacAdam --; Recherches récentes sur la Bactriane et la Sogdiane à l'époque hellénistique; Laurianne Martinez-Sève --; The islands of the XIVth satrapy; Daniel Potts --; TOPOI de la mer Érythrée; Jean-François Salles --; Cultural encounters in the Seleucid world; Life-fragments : Wilhelmina van Ingen and the figurines from Seleucia; Margaret Cool Root --; Macedonians, Seleucids, Bactrians, Greeks : histrionics as history on the Hellenistic fringe; Frank L. Holt --; The bilingual bricks of Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan); Jeffrey D. Lerner N2 - Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, one of the world's leading experts in Hellenistic and above all Seleucid history, this volume gathers contributions from more than 40 authors addressing a wide range of topics in Seleucid history, archaeology, and numismatics, including the royal house, relations with the Roman Republic and other Hellenistic kingdoms, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of the Seleucid Empire. The reader will gain an international perspective on current research ER -