Hochschulschrift:
Dissertation, University of Oxford, 2011
Anmerkungen:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:
This volume focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, specifically the role of usurpers. Redefining the king as only one of several political players, it advances a political history predicated on social power and argues that despite its strong rulers the empire was structurally weak and the position of its kings precarious