Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor
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- ISBN 9780199250516
- Weight: 685g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This important and wide-ranging work examines a test case for the relationship between the polis and the Hellenistic empire focusing specifically on the interaction between Antiochos III and the cities of Western Asia Minor (226-188 BC). Such a study is possible thanks to a rich epigraphical documentation which has been reproduced extensively and translated in an appendix to this book. Dr Ma approaches this material from a variety of angles: narrative history, structural analyses of imperial power, and analyses of the functions played by language and stereotype in the interaction between rulers and ruled. The result is to further a nuanced appreciation of the relation between the Hellenistic king and the Hellenistic polis by drawing attention to the power of the Hellenistic empires, to the capacity of political language to modify power relations, and to the efforts of the Hellenistic polis to preserve its sense of identity and civic pride, if not its political independence. This paperback edition includes a new preface and a section of addenda.
Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
