The Land of the Elephant Kings : : Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire / / Paul J. Kosmin.
The Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan--the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests--the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and lingui...
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Kosmin, Paul J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Land of the Elephant Kings : Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire / Paul J. Kosmin. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (439 p.) : 15 halftones, 4 maps, 5 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. Border -- CHAPTER 1. India - Diplomacy and Ethnography at the Mauryan Frontier -- CHAPTER 2. Central Asia - Nomads, Ocean, and the Desire for Line -- PART II. Homeland -- CHAPTER 3. Macedonia - From Center to Periphery -- CHAPTER 4. Syria - Diasporic Imperialism -- INTERLUDE -- PART III. Movement -- CHAPTER 5. Arrivals and Departures -- CHAPTER 6. The Circulatory System -- PART IV. Colony -- CHAPTER 7. King Makes City -- CHAPTER 8. City Makes King -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX. NOTES. GLOSSARY. REFERENCES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX -- APPENDIX -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan--the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests--the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the ancestral homeland of the dynasty. The Land of the Elephant Kings investigates how the Seleucid kings, ruling over lands to which they had no historic claim, attempted to transform this territory into a coherent and meaningful space. Based on recent archaeological evidence and ancient primary sources, Paul J. Kosmin's multidisciplinary approach treats the Seleucid Empire not as a mosaic of regions but as a land unified in imperial ideology and articulated by spatial practices. Kosmin uncovers how Seleucid geographers and ethnographers worked to naturalize the kingdom's borders with India and Central Asia in ways that shaped Roman and later medieval understandings of "the East." In the West, Seleucid rulers turned their backs on Macedonia, shifting their sense of homeland to Syria. By mapping the Seleucid kings' travels and studying the cities they founded--an ambitious colonial policy that has influenced the Near East to this day--Kosmin shows how the empire's territorial identity was constructed on the ground. In the empire's final century, with enemies pressing harder and central power disintegrating, we see that the very modes by which Seleucid territory had been formed determined the way in which it fell apart. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Seleucids. HISTORY / Ancient / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674728820 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674416161 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674416161 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674416161.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. Border -- CHAPTER 1. India - Diplomacy and Ethnography at the Mauryan Frontier -- CHAPTER 2. Central Asia - Nomads, Ocean, and the Desire for Line -- PART II. Homeland -- CHAPTER 3. Macedonia - From Center to Periphery -- CHAPTER 4. Syria - Diasporic Imperialism -- INTERLUDE -- PART III. Movement -- CHAPTER 5. Arrivals and Departures -- CHAPTER 6. The Circulatory System -- PART IV. Colony -- CHAPTER 7. King Makes City -- CHAPTER 8. City Makes King -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX. NOTES. GLOSSARY. REFERENCES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX -- APPENDIX -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. Border -- CHAPTER 1. India - Diplomacy and Ethnography at the Mauryan Frontier -- CHAPTER 2. Central Asia - Nomads, Ocean, and the Desire for Line -- PART II. Homeland -- CHAPTER 3. Macedonia - From Center to Periphery -- CHAPTER 4. Syria - Diasporic Imperialism -- INTERLUDE -- PART III. Movement -- CHAPTER 5. Arrivals and Departures -- CHAPTER 6. The Circulatory System -- PART IV. Colony -- CHAPTER 7. King Makes City -- CHAPTER 8. City Makes King -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX. NOTES. GLOSSARY. REFERENCES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX -- APPENDIX -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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