Altay Coskun and Richard Wenghofer (eds.)

Seleukid Ideology: Creation, Reception, and Response

(Seleukid Perspectives, vol. 1), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2023.

Preface of the Series Editors 7

Preface of the Volume Editors 9

List of Figures 11

1. Richard Wenghofer and Altay Coşkun, Introduction: The Dialectics of Seleukid Ideology 13 (sneak peek with abstract)

Section I: Formation of Seleukid Dynastic Ideology

2. Kyle Erickson, Royal Propaganda and the Creation of Royal Status for Seleukos I 33 (sneak peek with abstract)

3. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, The King-Ship of the Seleukids: An Alternative Paradigm for the Anchor Symbol 61 (sneak peek with abstract)

4. Altay Coşkun, The First Seleukid Benefactions in Miletos   and the Creation of a Dynastic Ideology 93 (sneak peek with abstract)

Section II: Enacting Seleukid Kingship

5. Babett Edelmann-Singer, Material Culture, Ritual Performance, and Seleukid Rule: Antiochos IV and the Procession at Daphne in 166 BCE 115 (sneak peek with abstract)

6. Stephen Harrison, Antiochos at Daphne and Xerxes at Sardeis: A Comparative Perspective on the Seleukid Vision of Empire 135 (sneak peek with abstract)

7. Rolf Strootman, Ritual Mutilation and the Construction of Treason: The Execution of Molon and Achaios by Antiochos III 159 (sneak peek with abstract)

8. Benjamin E. Scolnic, Second-Hand Propaganda: Polybios and Zeno on the Role of Antiochos IV at the Battle of Panion 177 (sneak peek with abstract)

Section III: Resisting Seleukid Royal Authority

9. Deirdre Klokow, Connectivity and Rural Spaces in the Seleukid Empire 201 (sneak peek with abstract)

10. Gillian Ramsey, Rebel Poleis: The Politics of Anti-Seleukid Violence 219 (sneak peek with abstract)

Section IV: Reframing Seleukid Ideology

11. Germain Payen, Le royaume artaxiade dans l’Empire séleucide: de dominé à dominant 237 (sneak peek with abstract)

12. Benjamin E. Scolnic, Śar Wars – How a Judaean Author in the 160’s BCE Transformed a Ptolemaic View of Hellenistic History into a Theology for His Time 261 (sneak peek with abstract)

13. Eran Almagor, “To All Parts of the Kingdom”: The Book of Esther as a Seleukid Text 283 (sneak peek with abstract)

Section V: Re-Assessing Seleukid Ideology

14. Richard Wenghofer, Diplomatic Resistance to Seleukid Hegemony 319 (sneak peek with abstract)

15. Altay Coşkun, The Efficacy of Ideological Discourse: Loyalty to the Seleukid Dynasty in Babylonia, Judaea, and Asia Minor 343 (sneak peek with abstract)

About the Authors 367

Index of Names 371

Index of Sources 381