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The legend of Seleucus : kingship, narrative and mythmaking in the ancient world
- Title
- The legend of Seleucus : kingship, narrative and mythmaking in the ancient world / Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter.
- Author
- Ogden, Daniel
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 386 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seleucus had reconstructed the bulk of Alexander's empire, built Antioch, and become a king in his turn, one respected for justness in an age of cruelty. The dynasty he founded was to endure for three centuries. Such achievements richly deserved to be projected into legend, and so they were. This legend told of Seleucus' divine siring by Apollo, his escape from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the help of Zeus' eagles, his surrender of his new wife to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. This is the first book in any language devoted to the reconstruction of this fascinating tradition"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-378) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Birth myths and omens of greatness -- Seleucus' horseback flight from Babylon -- Omens and myths of city and cult foundation -- Combabus and Stratonice -- Antiochus and Stratonice -- Omens of death, death and revenge -- Coins, texts and traditions -- Appendices. A. Metatextuality at the end of Pausanias' Periegesis -- B. Mullak Onker -- C. Thorax and the loyal dog of Lysimachus -- D. Appian's Seleucus Excursus and Agatharchides of Cnidus' On Asia : the Goukowsky hypothesis -- E. Suggested analyses of Appian's Seleucus Excursus -- F. Towards a legend of Ptolemy.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-6868
- ISBN
- 9781107164789
- 1107164788
- LCCN
- 2017002046
- 40027280838
- OCLC
- 974867447
- Author
- Ogden, Daniel, author.
- Title
- The legend of Seleucus : kingship, narrative and mythmaking in the ancient world / Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-378) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027280838
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-6868