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Subject(s)

• Seleucids [Browse]
• Syria—History—333 B.C.-634 A.D. [Browse]
• Syria—Kings and rulers [Browse]
• Syria—Politics and government [Browse]

Series

• Oxford classical monographs [More in this series]
• Oxford classical monographs series [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, specifically the role of usurpers. Redefining the king as only one of several political players, it advances a political history predicated on social power and argues that despite its strong rulers the empire was structurally weak and the position of its kings precarious.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-293) and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Central and loca! power in the Seleukid empire
• 2. Usurpers in Asia Minor: the third century
• 3. Usurpers in the Levant and beyond : the second century
• 4. Usurpers in the Seleukid empire
• 5. Kings in the Seleukid empire: a story of usurpation
• Appendices
• Appendix A: the Meydancıkkale hoard and the recovery of rough Kilikia under Seleukos II
• Appendix B: Antiochos Hierax and the city of Magnesia
• Appendix C: Alexander Balas and the eagle coinage
• Appendix D: Usurpers and the senate of Rome.

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Other title(s)

Men who would be king

ISBN

• 9780198786924
• 0198786921

LCCN

2016942741

OCLC

944462967

Other standard number

• 99972104368

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