New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics: Studies in Honor of Getzel M. Cohen

832 Pages·2019·4.995 MB·English

by  Roland Oetjen (editor)

New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics
Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
Herausgegeben von Susanne Daub, Michael Erler,
Dorothee Gall, Ludwig Koenen und Clemens Zintzen
Band 355
New Perspectives in
Seleucid History,
Archaeology and
Numismatics
Studies in Honor of Getzel M. Cohen
Edited by Roland Oetjen
The publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the Institute for Mediterranean
Studies (IMS), Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Table of Contents
Preface   XIII
Bibliography of Getzel Cohen   XVI
The Rise of the Seleucids
G. G. Aperghis
The Armed Forces of Seleukos I, with Help from Coins   3
Lee L. Brice
Seleukos and Military Unrest in the Army of Alexander the Great   31
Ivan Ladynin
The Burial of Seleucus I Nicator in Appian (Syr. 63):
A Replica of the Ptolemaic Eponymous Cult?   46
Francis X. Ryan
What Impelled Simonides of Magnesia to Glorify Antiochos I   59
Monarchy and Empire
Paul Kosmin
No Island is a Man: Antiochus III’s Marriage to “Euboea”   71
John Ma
The Restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Seleukid State:
II Macc. 11.16–38   80
Maxim M. Kholod
On the Seleucid and Attalid Syntaxis   94
Roland Oetjen
An Economic Model of Greek Euergetism   108
VIII   Table of Contents
Rolf Strootman
The Great Kings of Asia: Imperial Titulature in the Seleukid and Post-Seleukid
Middle East   123
Catharine C. Lorber – Panagiotis P. Iossif
Draped Royal Busts on the Coinage of the Early Seleucids   158
Dynastic Connections
Sheila Ager
‘He shall give him the daughter of women …’: Ptolemaic Queens in the Seleukid
House   183
Oleg Gabelko – Yuri Kuzmin
A Сase of Stratonicas: Two Royal Women between Three Hellenistic
Monarchies   202
Sergey Saprykin
The Pontic Kingdom and the Seleucids   225
The Fabric of Empire
Gillian Ramsey
Seleukid Land and Native Populations: Laodike II and the Competition for Power
in Asia Minor and Babylonia   243
Graeme Clarke – Heather Jackson – C. E. V. Nixon – John Tidmarsh
The Trading Links of a Seleukid Settlement: Jebel Khalid on the
Euphrates   264
Edward Dąbrowa
The Hasmoneans’ Attitude towards Cities   284
Gerald Finkielsztejn
The City Organization in the Seleucid Southern Levant: Some Archeological
Evidence and Prospects   296
Table of Contents   IX
Lise Hannestad
On the Periphery of the Seleucid Kingdom: Failaka Revisited   312
Henry Innes MacAdam
Place-Names and Plant-Names: Notes on the Provenance and Etymology of
Some Flora from Hellenistic Phoenicia   333
Laurianne Martinez-Sève
Recherches récentes sur la Bactriane et la Sogdiane à l’époque
hellénistique   348
Daniel Potts
The Islands of the XIVth Satrapy   375
Jean-François Salles
TOPOI de la mer Érythrée   397
Cultural Encounters in the Seleucid World
Margaret Cool Root
Life-Fragments: Wilhelmina van Ingen and the Figurines from
Seleucia   421
Frank L. Holt
Macedonians, Seleucids, Bactrians, Greeks: Histrionics as History on the
Hellenistic Fringe   458
Jeffrey D. Lerner
The Bilingual Bricks of Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan)   466
The World of Antiochos IV
Filippo Canali De Rossi
Roma, Antioco IV, e le città del regno seleucidico   483
Manuela Mari
Panegyreis rivali. Emilio Paolo e Antioco IV tra tradizione macedone e melting
pot tardo-ellenistico   491
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Marion Meyer
King Antiochus IV and the Cities in the Levant   525
Federicomaria Muccioli
Antioco IV, i Giudei e l’unità del regno seleucide (Mach. I 1, 41–42)   540
The Seleucid Settlements
François de Callataÿ
Did the Seleucids Found New Cities to Promote Coinage?   561
Pascal Arnaud
Mallos, Antioche du Pyrame, Magarsus: toponymie historique et aléas
politiques d’un « hellenistique settlement »   574
Jean-Christophe Couvenhes
Attaleia de Lydie et Philétaireia-sous-l’Ida dans l’accord entre Eumène Ier et les
soldats mutinés (OGIS 266): des colonies militaires ?   603
Christian Habicht
Aigai in der Aiolis im frühen Hellenismus   623
Pierre Leriche
Doura-Europos ou Europos-Doura?   632
Andreas Mehl
Gedanken zu den ptolemäischen Siedlungsgründungen in Zypern   648
Kent J. Rigsby
Antioch the Metropolis   661
New Evidence and Old Sources Revisited
Giuseppina Azzarello – Fabian Reiter
A Further Testimony of Flavius Apion I, ἔκδικος and magnificentissimus:
P.Rain. Unterricht 79 Revisited   669