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 16. Achaeus; 17. The reconquest of the east; 18. The conquest of Palestine; 19. The advance of the west; 20. The war in Greece; 21. The war in Asia; 22. The interval of peace; 23. Antiochus IV and the conquest of Egypt; 24. Antiochus the god manifest; 25. Antiochus and the Jews; 26. Antiochus V Eupator; 27. Demetrius the saviour; 28. Alexander I and the Ptolemaic ascendancy; 29. The Cretan tyranny; 30. Antiochus Sidetes; 31. The last convulsions; 32. Government, court, and army; Appendices; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Edwyn Robert Bevan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2015
• EAN: 9781108082761
• ISBN: 978-1-108-08276-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity