Nicator - Seleucus and his Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nicator - Seleucus and his Empire write by Lise Hannestad. This book was released on 2020-06-12. Nicator - Seleucus and his Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Nicator: Seleucus I and his Empire
Nicator: Seleucus I and his Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nicator: Seleucus I and his Empire write by Lise Hannestad. This book was released on 2020-07-15. Nicator: Seleucus I and his Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seleucus was the last surviving of the successors of Alexander the Great and the one who conquered the largest part of Alexander's empire. He was later given the surname 'Nikator', the Conqueror. This book is a study of his life and achievements, his time and his legacy. It is based on Greco-Roman and Babylonian written sources as well as on archaeological evidence, which has grown exponentially in recent years.
New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics
New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics write by Roland Oetjen. This book was released on 2019-12-16. New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Legend of Seleucus
The Legend of Seleucus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legend of Seleucus write by Daniel Ogden. This book was released on 2017-04-07. The Legend of Seleucus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had reconstructed the bulk of Alexander's empire, built Antioch, and become a king in his turn, one respected for justness in an age of cruelty. The dynasty he founded was to endure for three centuries. Such achievements richly deserved to be projected into legend, and so they were. This legend told of Seleucus' divine siring by Apollo, his escape from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the help of Zeus' eagles, his surrender of his new wife to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. This is the first book in any language devoted to the reconstruction of this fascinating tradition.
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire write by Paul J. Kosmin. This book was released on 2018-12-31. Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Runciman Award Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award “Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than starting a new count, as other states did, each time a new monarch was crowned...Fascinating.” —Harper’s In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, his successors, the Seleucid kings, ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia and Anatolia to the Persian Gulf. In 305 BCE, in a radical move to impose unity and regulate behavior, Seleucus I introduced a linear conception of time. Time would no longer restart with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years—continuous and irreversible—became the de facto measure of historical duration. This new temporality, propagated throughout the empire and identical to the system we use today, changed how people did business, recorded events, and oriented themselves to the larger world. Some rebellious subjects, eager to resurrect their pre-Hellenic past, rejected this new approach and created apocalyptic time frames, predicting the total end of history. In this magisterial work, Paul Kosmin shows how the Seleucid Empire’s invention of a new kind of time—and the rebellions against this worldview—had far reaching political and religious consequences, transforming the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future. “Without Paul Kosmin’s meticulous investigation of what Seleucus achieved in creating his calendar without end we would never have been able to comprehend the traces of it that appear in late antiquity...A magisterial contribution to this hitherto obscure but clearly important restructuring of time in the ancient Mediterranean world.” —G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books “With erudition, theoretical sophistication, and meticulous discussion of the sources, Paul Kosmin sheds new light on the meaning of time, memory, and identity in a multicultural setting.” —Angelos Chaniotis, author of Age of Conquests
