The Land of the Elephant Kings : : Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire /

The Land of the Elephant Kings : : Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire / / Paul J. Kosmin.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Kosmin, Paul J.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (439 p.) :; 15 halftones, 4 maps, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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