Notes on Contributors (in alphabetical order)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Contents IX
5. Abbreviations XI
6. Introduction Un-Framing Seleukid Ideology 1
7. I Representations and Perceptions: Ideology and the Beginnings of a Monarchy
8. The Seleukid Royal Family as a Reigning Triad 23
9. Alexander vs. Soter vs. Nikator. Die Rolle Alexanders, Ptolemaios’ I. und Seleukos’ I. in der politischen Legitimation ihrer Nachfolger 41
10. Coinage and the Creation of the Seleukid Kingdom 57
11. Seleucus and the Typology of Heracles 77
12. Memory and Ideology of the First Successors of Alexander the Great as inscribed on Roman Mosaics from Apameia of Syria 97
13. II Political Culture: A Contested Monarchy
14. Wars of the Brothers: the Contested Coalescence of Seleukid Statehood in mid-Third-Century Asia Minor 131
15. The Reception of Seleukid Ideology in Second-Century BCE Judaea 151
16. Popular Resistance to Seleukid Claims of Hegemony 167
17. III Local Ideology: The Babylonian Tradition and Greek Culture
18. How to understand Seleukids as Babylonian “Great Kings” 187
19. Au sujet de la puissance symbolique des vêtements du souverain en Babylonie et dans l’Orient grec hellénistiques 203
20. Flexing Mythologies in Babylon and Antioch-on-the-Orontes: Divine Champions and their Aquatic Enemies under the Early Seleukids 227
21. The Death of Antiochos IV in the Context of Babylonian Hellenistic Historiography 251
22. IV Cultural Interdependencies: Empires and Ideologies in Dialogue
23. The Influence of Seleukid Coinage upon the Bithynian and Pontic Monarchies to the Reign of Mithridates VI 269
24. Kingship and Ruler Cult in Hellenistic Bactria: Beyond the Numismatic Sources 297
25. Great King Ptolemy III and Great King Antiochos III: Remarks on the Significance of a “Persian” Title in their Representation 313
26. Mehr als Schall und Rauch? Das Seleukidenreich und seine antiken Namen 331
27. Notes on Contributors (in alphabetical order) 351
28. Index 355