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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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