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The Land of the Elephant Kings
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe Seleucid Empire (311–64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from …
Spear-Won Land
Sardis, in western Turkey, was one of the great cities of the Aegean and Near Eastern worlds for almost a millennium—a political keystone with a legendary past. Recent …
Land of the Elephant Kings
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearThe Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from …
The Middle Maccabees
This volume lays out the charged, complicated beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded by the Maccabees in the second century BCE. Contributors offer focused analyses of …
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award"e;Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting …
Land of the Elephant Kings
Taking in the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests, the Seleucid Empire encompassed remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include …