The Pontic Kingdom and the Seleucids

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Preface XIII
4. Bibliography of Getzel Cohen XVI
5. The Rise of the Seleucids
6. The Armed Forces of Seleukos I, with Help from Coins 1
7. Seleukos and Military Unrest in the Army of Alexander the Great 31
8. The Burial of Seleucus I Nicator in Appian (Syr. 63): A Replica of the Ptolemaic Eponymous Cult? 46
9. What Impelled Simonides of Magnesia to Glorify Antiochos I 59
10. Monarchy and Empire
11. No Island is a Man: Antiochus III’s Marriage to “Euboea” 71
12. The Restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Seleukid State: II Macc. 11.16–38 80
13. On the Seleucid and Attalid Syntaxis 94
14. An Economic Model of Greek Euergetism 108
15. The Great Kings of Asia: Imperial Titulature in the Seleukid and Post-Seleukid Middle East 123
16. Draped Royal Busts on the Coinage of the Early Seleucids 158
17. Dynastic Connections
18. ‘He shall give him the daughter of women …’: Ptolemaic Queens in the Seleukid House 183
19. A Сase of Stratonicas: Two Royal Women between Three Hellenistic Monarchies 202
20. The Pontic Kingdom and the Seleucids 225
21. The Fabric of Empire
22. Seleukid Land and Native Populations: Laodike II and the Competition for Power in Asia Minor and Babylonia 243
23. The Trading Links of a Seleukid Settlement: Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates 264
24. The Hasmoneans’ Attitude towards Cities 284
25. The City Organization in the Seleucid Southern Levant: Some Archeological Evidence and Prospects 296
26. On the Periphery of the Seleucid Kingdom: Failaka Revisited 312
27. Place-Names and Plant-Names: Notes on the Provenance and Etymology of Some Flora from Hellenistic Phoenicia 333
28. Recherches récentes sur la Bactriane et la Sogdiane à l’époque hellénistique 348
29. The Islands of the XIVth Satrapy 375
30. TOPOI de la mer Érythrée 397
31. Cultural Encounters in the Seleucid World
32. Life-Fragments: Wilhelmina van Ingen and the Figurines from Seleucia 421
33. Macedonians, Seleucids, Bactrians, Greeks: Histrionics as History on the Hellenistic Fringe 458
34. The Bilingual Bricks of Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan) 466
35. The World of Antiochos IV
36. Roma, Antioco IV, e le città del regno seleucidico 483
37. Panegyreis rivali. Emilio Paolo e Antioco IV tra tradizione macedone e melting pot tardo-ellenistico 491
38. King Antiochus IV and the Cities in the Levant 525
39. Antioco IV, i Giudei e l’unità del regno seleucide (Mach. I 1, 41–42) 540
40. The Seleucid Settlements
41. Did the Seleucids Found New Cities to Promote Coinage? 561
42. Mallos, Antioche du Pyrame, Magarsus: toponymie historique et aléas politiques d’un « hellenistique settlement » 574
43. Attaleia de Lydie et Philétaireia-sous-l’Ida dans l’accord entre Eumène Ier et les soldats mutinés (OGIS 266): des colonies militaires ? 603
44. Aigai in der Aiolis im frühen Hellenismus 623
45. Doura-Europos ou Europos-Doura? 632
46. Gedanken zu den ptolemäischen Siedlungsgründungen in Zypern 648
47. Antioch the Metropolis 661
48. New Evidence and Old Sources Revisited
49. A Further Testimony of Flavius Apion I, ἔκδικος and magnificentissimus: P.Rain. Unterricht 79 Revisited 669
50. Poseidonios über das späte Seleukidenreich 678
51. The Abandonment of Euesperides: Evidence from the Eastern Sidi Abeid and P. Hibeh 91 689
52. Polychronius of Apamea and Daniel 11: Seleucid History through the Eyes of an Antiochene Biblical Interpreter 705
53. Crime, Punishment and Reward in the Book of Esther 721
54. La tradizione filarchea sui Seleucidi in Claudio Eliano 730
55. The End of the Seleucids
56. La Grande Evasion. Réflexions sur les Séleucides et la captivité 741
57. Pompey and the Pirates: Settling the Seleucids Once and for All 756
58. The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Seleucid Coinage and the Roman Provincial Paradigm 765
59. Figures 777
60. Contributing Authors 813