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New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics : studies in honor of Getzel M. Cohen / edited by Roland Oetjen.

Contributor(s): Oetjen, Roland [editor.] | Cohen, Getzel M [honoree.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, Italian, German Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 355Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Description: xvii, 814 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783110283785; 3110283786Subject(s): Seleucus I, Nicator, -281 B.C | Seleucus I, Nicator, -281 B.C | 333 B.C.-634 A.D | Seleucids | Séleucides | Seleucids | Syria -- History -- 333 B.C.-634 A.D | Syrie -- Histoire -- 333 av. J.-C.-634 | SyriaGenre/Form: History.Additional physical formats: PDF: No title; ePub: No titleDDC classification: 939.43 LOC classification: DS96.2 | .N49 2020
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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.

Contributions in English, French, Italian, and German