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Nicator Seleucus I and his empire / Lise Hannestad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hannestad, Lise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seleucus I, Nicator, -281 B.C.
- Seleucus.
- Syria--History--333 B.C.-634 A.D.
- Syria.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Campaigning with Alexander
- ch. 2 The death of Alexander and the first struggles for power
- ch. 3 Satrap of Babylonia
- ch. 4 The years in the Mediterranean and the return to Babylonia
- ch. 5 Seleucus' co-regency with his son, victory over Lysimachus and death
- ch. 6 Economy and administration
- ch. 7 Royal propaganda and ideology
- ch. 8 The coloniser
- ch. 9 From palaces to pottery: material culture in the Seleucid realm
- ch. 10 Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Colour map on lining paper.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788771248135
- 8771248137
- 8772191732
- 9788772191737
- OCLC:
- 1164379156
- Publisher Number:
- 99988374446
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