The Land of the Elephant Kings
Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire
- List of Maps*
- List of Illustrations**
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. Border
- 1. India—Diplomacy and Ethnography at the Mauryan Frontier
- 2. Central Asia— Nomads, Ocean, and the Desire for Line
- II. Homeland
- 3. Macedonia—From Center to Periphery
- 4. Syria—Diasporic Imperialism
- Interlude—The Kingdom of Asia
- III. Movement
- 5. Arrivals and Departures
- 6. The Circulatory System
- IV. Colony
- 7. King Makes City
- 8. City Makes King
- Conclusion
- Appendix: On the Date of Megasthenes’ Indica
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Maps
- 1. The Geography and topography of the Seleucid Empire
- 2. Central Asia and India, with Ashoka’s inscriptions
- 3. Western Asia Minor and European Thrace
- 4. Cilicia and the Levant
- 5. Frequency of royal travel, Antiochus I to Antiochus III
- 6. Frequency of royal travel, Seleucus IV to Antiochus XII
- 7. The Arab-Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, and western Iran
- 8. Seleucid colonial foundations, Seleucus I to Antiochus II
- 9. Seleucid colonial foundations, Seleucus II to Demetrius III
- ** Illustrations
- 1. An elephant! Mount Karasis fort, Cilicia (Author’s photograph)
- 2. The house of Seleucus (simplified) (Dates and kinship relations according to Ehling 2008)
- 3. Atrosoces’ dedication to river Oxus, from the Takht-i Sangin temple, southern Tajikistan (Encyclopaedia Iranica s.v. Greece iii)
- 4. Seleucid geography in the Tabula Peutingeriana (Bosio 1983: segment 11)
- 5. Tryphic Heracles, Behistun, Iran (Author’s photograph)
- 6. Satellite image of the Dasht-i Qala plain (Map data: Google, Cnes/Spot)
- 7. Section through the city wall of Antioch-in-Margiane (Merv), Turkmenistan (Author’s photograph)
- 8. Jebel Khalid, Syria (After Graeme Clarke)
- 9. Early Seleucid Dura-Europus, Syria (After Gérard Thébault)
- 10. Mount Karasis fort, Cilicia, with reconstruction of upper citadel (Timm Radt)
- 11. Reconstructed plans of Seleucid cities: Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Antioch-by-Daphne, Laodicea-by-the-Sea, Apamea-on-the-Axios, Apamea-on-the-Euphrates, Demetrias-Damascus, Beroea-Aleppo, Antioch-in-Margiane (After Hopkins 1972, Hoepfner 2004, Sauvaget 1934, Balty 1969, Abadia-Reynal and Gaborit 2003, Sauvaget 1949, Sauvaget 1941, and Hermann, Kurbansakhatov, and Simpson 2001)
- 12. Temple of the Gadde relief, Dura-Europus, Syria (YUAG 1938.5314)
- 13. Late Seleucid Dura-Europus, Syria (Pearson in Rostovtzeff 1941: 1.483)
- 14. Plan and environs of Aï Khanoum, Afghanistan
- 15. Seleucid semiautonomous coinage [Houghton, Lorber, and Hoover 2008: (a) #1444, (b) #2021, (c) #2185, (d) #2058, (e) #1779, (f) #2451, (g) #2471, (h) #1798, (i) #2012, (j) #2422]
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