House of Seleucus

Klappentext This two-volume 1902 work covers the rise and fall of the Seleucid dynasty, Hellenistic rulers of an eastern empire. Zusammenfassung Edwyn Bevan! a scholar of early Christianity as well as of the Hellenistic period! collates written and archaeological sources to describe the creation of an eastern empire by Seleucus! one of the successors of Alexander the Great. This two-volume 1902 work covers the rise and fall of the Seleucid dynasty. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Hellenism in the east; 2. The physical environment; 3. Perdiccas; 4. Events in the east, 321-316; 5. Seleucus conquers the east; 6. From Ipsus to the death of Seleucus; 7. The problems of Asia Minor; 8. Antiochus I, Soter; 9. Antiochus II, Theos; 10. Seleucus II, Kallinikos and Seleucus III, Soter; 11. Syria; 12. Babylonia; 13. Iran; 14. India; 15. The first years of Antiochus III (223-216); Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Edwyn Robert Bevan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2015
• EAN: 9781108082754
• ISBN: 978-1-108-08275-4
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics; Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity