[PDF] The Legend Of Seleucus eBook

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107164788

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The first full reconstruction of and investigation into the vibrant and fascinating legend of King Seleucus, successor to Alexander the Great.

Author : Lise Hannestad
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8771248137

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When the vast empire of Alexander the Great broke up, the Macedonian general Seleucus secured the lion’s share for himself and went on to become the longest-lived of Alexander’s successors. His tactical skills and his military innovations – including his use of war elephants on a scale never seen before in the West – earned him the epithet Nicator, “victorious”. When he died at the hands of an assassin in 281 BC, Seleucus ruled over a larger territory than any Hellenistic monarch before or since his time, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. This book is a study of his life and achievements, his time and his legacy. It is based on Graeco-Roman and Babylonian written sources as well as on the rapidly growing body of archaeological evidence. Lise Hannestad is professor emerita of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University. Her main research areas are the Near East in the Hellenistic period, the Etruscans and Black Sea archaeology.

Author : Roland Oetjen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110388553

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Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, 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.

Author : Karsten Dahmen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1134159706

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This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not only Alexander’s own coinage and the posthumous coinages of his successors, but also the re-use of his image by rulers from the Greek world and the Roman empire, to late antiquity. Also including numismatic material that exceeds all previous published works, and well-illustrated, this historical survey brings Alexander and his legacy to life.

Author : Lynette Mitchell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004228977

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Drawing on studies of kings from Cyrus to Shah Abbas, this volume provides a rich variety of readings on royal authority and its limitations in medieval societies in both Europe and the Middle East, exemplified especially in the case of Alexander the Great, God and King, and the persistence of his legend in later eras.

Author : Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108479251

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First comparative analysis of the role of local elites and populations in the formation of the two main Hellenistic empires.

Author : Kristina M. Neumann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 110883714X

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Combines ancient coins and innovative digital technologies to study the citizens of Syrian Antioch and their imperial conquerors.

Author : Richard A. Billows
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1468316419

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In the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe. So important is Greece to history that figures such as Plato and Socrates are still household names, and the works of Homer are regularly adapted into movies. The most acclaimed hero of all, though, is Alexander the Great.While historians have studied Alexander’s achievements at length, author and professor Richard A. Billows delves deeper into the obscure periods of Alexander’s life before and after his reign. In the definitive Before and After Alexander, Billows explores the years preceding Alexander, who, Billows argues, without the foundation laid by his father, Philip II of Macedon. would not have had the resources or influence to develop one of the greatest empires in history. Alexander was groomed from a young age to succeed his father, and by the time Philip was assassinated in 336 BC, his great empire was already well underway.The years following Alexander's death were even more momentous. In this ambitious new work, Richard Billows robustly challenges the notion that the political strife that followed was for lack of a leader as competent as Alexander, pointing out instead that there were too many extremely capable leaders who exploited the power vacuum created by Alexander's death to carve out kingdoms for themselves.Above all, in Before and After Alexander, Billows eloquently and convincingly posits a complex view of one of the greatest empires in history, framing it not as the achievement of one man, but the culmination of several generations of aggressive expansion toward a unified purpose.