The House of Seleucus 2 Volume Set
The House of Seleucus 2 Volume Set
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GBPEdwyn Bevan (1870–1943) remarks in his preface to this two-volume work of 1902 that there is 'much to discourage an attempt to write a history of the Seleucid dynasty'. However, Bevan, a scholar of early Christianity as well as of the Hellenistic period, pulls together written and archaeological sources to describe the creation of an eastern empire by Seleucus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great. After an introduction on Hellenism in the east, Bevan describes the conflict between the generals after Alexander's death, and the complexity of the events which led Seleucus from governorship in Babylon to exile, and to the eventual conquest of an empire which spread from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India. Volume 1 covers the period until the succession of Antiochus III in 222 BCE, and Volume 2 continues until the disintegration of the dynasty in the last century BCE.
Product details
March 2016Multiple copy pack
9781108082778
716 pages
224 × 142 × 45 mm
0.8kg
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Hellenism in the east
- 2. The physical environment
- 3. Perdiccas
- 4. Events in the east, 321–316
- 5. Seleucus conquers the east
- 6. From Ipsus to the death of Seleucus
- 7. The problems of Asia Minor
- 8. Antiochus I, Soter
- 9. Antiochus II, Theos
- 10. Seleucus II, Kallinikos and Seleucus III, Soter
- 11. Syria
- 12. Babylonia
- 13. Iran
- 14. India
- 15. The first years of Antiochus III (223–216)
- Appendices. Volume 2:
- 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.
