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

by Paul J. Kosmin

Book Overview

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

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 linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the ancestral homeland of the dynasty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674986881
• ISBN13: 9780674986886
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"