New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics: Studies in Honor of Getzel M. Cohen

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Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of the Seleucid Empire. The reader will gain an international perspective on current research. Table of Contents Preface Bibliography of Getzel Cohen The Rise of the Seleucids The Armed Forces of Seleukos I, with Help from Coins Seleukos and Military Unrest in the Army of Alexander the Great The Burial of Seleucus I Nicator in Appian (Syr. 63): A Replica of the Ptolemaic Eponymous Cult? What Impelled Simonides of Magnesia to Glorify Antiochos I Monarchy and Empire No Island is a Man: Antiochus III’s Marriage to “Euboea” The Restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Seleukid State: II Macc. 11.16–38 On the Seleucid and Attalid Syntaxis An Economic Model of Greek Euergetism The Great Kings of Asia: Imperial Titulature in the Seleukid and Post-Seleukid Middle East Draped Royal Busts on the Coinage of the Early Seleucids Dynastic Connections ‘He shall give him the daughter of women …’: Ptolemaic Queens in the Seleukid House A Сase of Stratonicas: Two Royal Women between Three Hellenistic Monarchies The Pontic Kingdom and the Seleucids The Fabric of Empire Seleukid Land and Native Populations: Laodike II and the Competition for Power in Asia Minor and Babylonia The Trading Links of a Seleukid Settlement: Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates The Hasmoneans’ Attitude towards Cities The City Organization in the Seleucid Southern Levant: Some Archeological Evidence and Prospects On the Periphery of the Seleucid Kingdom: Failaka Revisited Place-Names and Plant-Names: Notes on the Provenance and Etymology of Some Flora from Hellenistic Phoenicia Recherches récentes sur la Bactriane et la Sogdiane à l’époque hellénistique The Islands of the XIVth Satrapy TOPOI de la mer Érythrée Cultural Encounters in the Seleucid World Life-Fragments: Wilhelmina van Ingen and the Figurines from Seleucia Macedonians, Seleucids, Bactrians, Greeks: Histrionics as History on the Hellenistic Fringe The Bilingual Bricks of Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan) The World of Antiochos IV Roma, Antioco IV, e le città del regno seleucidico Panegyreis rivali. Emilio Paolo e Antioco IV tra tradizione macedone e melting pot tardo-ellenistico King Antiochus IV and the Cities in the Levant Antioco IV, i Giudei e l’unità del regno seleucide (Mach. I 1, 41–42) The Seleucid Settlements Did the Seleucids Found New Cities to Promote Coinage? Mallos, Antioche du Pyrame, Magarsus: toponymie historique et aléas politiques d’un « hellenistique settlement » Attaleia de Lydie et Philétaireia-sous-l’Ida dans l’accord entre Eumène Ier et les soldats mutinés (OGIS 266): des colonies militaires ? Aigai in der Aiolis im frühen Hellenismus Doura-Europos ou Europos-Doura? Gedanken zu den ptolemäischen Siedlungsgründungen in Zypern Antioch the Metropolis New Evidence and Old Sources Revisited A Further Testimony of Flavius Apion I, ἔκδικος and magnificentissimus: P.Rain. Unterricht 79 Revisited Poseidonios über das späte Seleukidenreich The Abandonment of Euesperides: Evidence from the Eastern Sidi Abeid and P. Hibeh 91 Polychronius of Apamea and Daniel 11: Seleucid History through the Eyes of an Antiochene Biblical Interpreter Crime, Punishment and Reward in the Book of Esther La tradizione filarchea sui Seleucidi in Claudio Eliano The End of the Seleucids La Grande Evasion. Réflexions sur les Séleucides et la captivité Pompey and the Pirates: Settling the Seleucids Once and for All The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Seleucid Coinage and the Roman Provincial Paradigm Figures Contributing Authors