Seleukid Empire 281-222 BC
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Seleukid Empire
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- ISBN 9781910589717
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2018
- Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Seleukids, the easternmost of the Greekspeaking dynasties which succeeded Alexander the Great, were long portrayed by historians as inherently weak and doomed to decline after the passing of their remarkable first king, Seleukos (died 281 BC). And yet they succeeded in ruling much of the Near and Middle East for over two centuries, overcoming problems of a multi-ethnic empire. In this book an international team of scholars argues 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 more in knowing how to tie the new, frequently non-Greek, nobility to the king through mutual recognition of sovereignty.
KYLE ERICKSON teaches Ancient History at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where he is Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Performing Arts. His primary research interest is the political and cultural interactions between the Greek world and the Near East, particularly as expressed in iconography and coinage.
