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List of contents
Introduction; Chapter 1: Creation of an empire; Chapter 2: The Creation of a Seleukid Deity; Chapter 3: Continuity and Rebellion: Developments in Seleukid Ideology; Chapter 4: A New Start?; Conclusion; Index
About the author
Kyle Erickson is the Assistant Dean of Faculty for the Faculty of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. His primary research interest is the political and cultural interactions between the Greek world and the Near East. He is interested in connections between divinity, legitimacy and power. As a result, my work has concentrated on the numismatic representation of divine figures and their potential multicultural interpretations. His current research explores the iconography of the Seleukid empire, the creation of ruler cult in Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period, problems of Hellenistic kingship. He is also interested in the development of the Alexander legends and the potential existence of a Seleukos romance.
Summary
The Early Seleukids, their Gods and their Coins examines how the Seleukids, from Seleukos I to Antiochos IV, used coinage to propagandise their governing ideology. It offers a valuable resource to students of the Seleukids and of Hellenistic kingship more broadly, numismatics, and the interplay of ancient Greek religion and politics.
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"[Erickson] offers a useful resource to both students of the Seleukids and of Hellenistic kingship more broadly, of numismatics and of the interplay of ancient Greek religion and politics." The Classical Jounal
