The Early Seleukids, Their Gods and Their Coins by Erickson, Kyle -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of figures Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction

Seleukid ideology and culture Legitimacy Propaganda The Seleukid court Mechanisms of Seleukid propaganda

Coinage

Who controlled the images on coins? How were coins disseminated? Reactions to coins Choice of coin images Modern study of coinage

Literary and epigraphic sources

Structure and argument

1 Creation of an empire

A new Alexander? The first attempt at a Seleukid image Seleukos: founder of cities His own Zeus The bull-horned king The horned horseman Creating Seleukos ‘the king’: the anchor and a horned horse Failure of an image: the Medusa/bull coinage Passing on the diadem

2 The creation of a Seleukid deity

Seleukos, Antiochos, and Apollo: the creation of a divine genealogy Apollo, Asia Minor and the Seleukids Apollo and the Syrian tetrapolis The Babylonian policy of Antiochos I Antiochos I, Apollo, and Iranian kingship

3 Continuity and rebellion: developments in Seleukid ideology

The development of a Seleukid Apollo

Antiochos II Seleukos II Seleukos III Antiochos III Seleukos IV Antiochos Soter coinage Conclusions

Deviation from Apollo

Herakles and Asia Minor Seleukos II’s victory imagery Group I (horse/horseman type) Group II (elephant) Group III (Nike)

Antiochos III and the army Rebels, usurpers, and Seleukid kingship

Antiochos Hierax Achaios and Molon

4 A new start?

Antiochos IV and his rise to power Antiochos IV and Apollo Antiochos and Zeus Antiochos IV, Koile Syria and Egypt Conclusion

Conclusion Index