From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire (Hellenistic Culture & Society) - Hardcover

Sherwin-White, Susan; Kuhrt, Amelie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520081838 ISBN 13: 9780520081833

Publisher: Univ of California Pr, 1993

Synopsis

The empire created by Alexander the Great's general, Seleucus, constituted the largest Hellenistic kingdom of the successor states: yet this is the first substantial treatment of Seleucid history to appear for fifty years. The authors approach this important and successful state from new perspectives, seeing it as part of the Middle Eastern world rather than solely in Greco-Roman terms, and arguing that the Seleucid state is best understood as heir to the great Achaemenid Persian empire and earlier Middle Eastern states. They investigate the economies, social structures, political systems, and cultures of the many peoples making up the empire, and analyze, in the context of colonialism and imperialism, such evidence as exists for cultural changes, including Hellenization. The book makes accessible the great variety of new and important documents that have been recently discovered. It will be welcomed by students, teachers, and all readers with an interest in Hellenistic and Middle Eastern history.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Sherwin-White is Honorary Research Associate of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.Amélie Kuhrt is Reader in Ancient Near Eastern History at University College, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520081838
• ISBN 13: 9780520081833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1