Harvard University Press eBooks· 2014
The Land of the Elephant Kings
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- 2014year
Short summary
This work examines how the Seleucid Empire, built on Alexander the Great's Asian conquests, unified diverse territories despite lacking ancestral ties to them.
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Key points
- The Seleucid Empire spanned Alexander the Great's Asian conquests, not his Macedonian homeland.
- The empire was characterized by remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity.
- Rulers transformed lands to which they had no historic claim into a coherent political entity.
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Abstract
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 Macedonia, the dynasty's ancestral homeland. Paul Kosmin shows how rulers over lands to which they had no historic claim transformed the territory into a coherent space.
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