New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics : studies in honor of Getzel M. Cohen / edited by Roland Oetjen. - xvii, 814 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Band 355 1616-0452 ; . - Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 355. .

Includes bibliographical references. "Bibliography of Getzel Cohen": pages xvi-xvii.

Preface / Bibliography of Getzel Cohen -- The armed forces of Seleukos I, with help from coins / Seleukos and military unrest in the army of Alexander the Great / The burial of Seleucus I Nicator in Appian (Syr. 63) : a replica of the Ptolemaic eponymous cult? / What impelled Simonides of Magnesia to glorify Antiochos I / No island is a man : Antiochus III's marriage to "Euboea" / The restoration of the temple in Jerusalem by the Seleukid state : II Macc. 11.16-38 / On the Seleucid and Attalid syntaxis / An economic model of Greek Euergetism / The great kings of Asia : imperial titulature in the Seleukid and post-Seleukid Middle East / Draped royal busts on the coinage of the early Seleucids / "He shall give him the daughter of women ..." : Ptolemaic queens in the Seleukid house / A case of Stratonicas : two royal women between three Hellenistic monarchies / The Pontic kingdom and the Seleucids / Seleukid land and native populations : Laodike II and the competition for power in Asia Minor and Babylonia / The trading links of a Seleukid settlement : Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates / The Hasmoneans' attitude towards cities / The city organization in the Seleucid southern Levant : some archeological evidence and prospects / On the periphery of the Seleucid kingdom : Failaka revisited / Place-names and plant-names : notes on the provenance and etymology of some flora from Hellenistic Phoenicia / Recherches récentes sur la Bactriane et la Sogdiane à l'époque hellénistique / The islands of the XIVth satrapy / TOPOI de la mer Érythrée / Life-fragments : Wilhelmina van Ingen and the figurines from Seleucia / Macedonians, Seleucids, Bactrians, Greeks : histrionics as history on the Hellenistic fringe / The bilingual bricks of Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan) / Roland Oetjen -- G. G. Aperghis -- Lee L. Brice -- Ivan Ladynin -- Francis X. Ryan -- Paul Kosmin -- John Ma -- Maxim M. Kholod -- Roland Oetjen -- Rolf Strootman -- Catherine C. Lorber, Panaglotis P. Iossif -- Sheila Ager -- Oleg Gabelko, Yuri Kuzmin -- Sergey Saprykin -- Gillian Ramsey -- Grame Clarke, Heather Jackson, C. E. V. Nixon, John Tidmarsh -- Edward Dąbrowa -- Gerald Finkielsztejn -- Lise Hannestad -- Henry Innes MacAdam -- Laurianne Martinez-Sève -- Daniel Potts -- Jean-François Salles -- Margaret Cool Root -- Frank L. Holt -- Jeffrey D. Lerner The rise of the Seleucids. Monarchy and empire. Dynastic connections. The fabric of empire. Cultural encounters in the Seleucid world.

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

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Seleucus I, Nicator, -281 B.C.
Seleucus I, Nicator, -281 B.C.


333 B.C.-634 A.D.


Seleucids.
Séleucides.
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Syria--History--333 B.C.-634 A.D.
Syrie--Histoire--333 av. J.-C.-634.
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