Sherwin-White, Susan/Amélie Kuhrt: From Samarkhand to Sardis

A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire. The authors consider the important and successful state 'Seleucus' as part of the Middle Eastern world rather than solely in Greco-Roman terms, arguing that the Seleucid state is best understood as heir to the great Achaemenid Persian empire and earlier Middle Eastern states. They investigate the economies, social structures, political systems, and cultures of the societies making up the empire, and analyze, in the context of colonialism and imperialism, such evidence as exists for cultural changes, including Hellenization. IX,261 Seiten mit 11 Abb., Leinen (Hellenistic Culture and Society; Vol. 13/Gerald Duckworth 1993) textsauberes Exemplar, etwas bestoßen/clean text pages, somewhat bumped