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- The Tradition of the Ionian Colonisation of Asia Minor: Remarks on the Sources
- Greeks and non-Greeks in the City of Emporion and the Construction of Their Different Identities
- Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility
- Ptolemaic Foundations in Asia Minor and the Aegean as the Lagids' Political Tool
- Die städtischen Eliten der Kolonien der syrischen Tetrapolis zwischen Seleukiden, Armeniern, Parthern und Römern
- Coloniam deducere. Colonisation as an Instrument of the Roman Policy of Domination in Italy in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC, as Illustrated by Settlements in the Ager Gallicus and Picenum
- Corinth after 44 BC: Ethnical and Cultural Changes
- Herulian Settlements in Byzantium under Emperors Anastasius and Justinian
- “ELECTRUM” – VOLUMES PUBLISHED
Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- The Tradition of the Ionian Colonisation of Asia Minor: Remarks on the Sources
- Greeks and non-Greeks in the City of Emporion and the Construction of Their Different Identities
- Seleukid Settlements: Between Ethnic Identity and Mobility
- Ptolemaic Foundations in Asia Minor and the Aegean as the Lagids' Political Tool
- Die städtischen Eliten der Kolonien der syrischen Tetrapolis zwischen Seleukiden, Armeniern, Parthern und Römern
- Coloniam deducere. Colonisation as an Instrument of the Roman Policy of Domination in Italy in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC, as Illustrated by Settlements in the Ager Gallicus and Picenum
- Corinth after 44 BC: Ethnical and Cultural Changes
- Herulian Settlements in Byzantium under Emperors Anastasius and Justinian
- “ELECTRUM” – VOLUMES PUBLISHED
Summary
Go noiselessly by, stranger; the old man sleeps among the pious dead, wrapped in the slumber that is the lot of all. This is Meleager, the son of Eucrates, who linked sweet tearful Love and the Muses with the merry Graces. Heavenborn Tyre and Gadara's holy soil reared him to manhood, and beloved Cos of the Meropes tended his old age. If you are a Syrian, Salam! If you are a Phoenician, Naidius! If you are a Greek, Chaire! And say the same yourself.
Meleager of Gadara, I cent. BC, Greek Anth. 7.419, English trans. W.R. PatonAbstract: The present paper deals with the population of the Seleukid settlements in order to address issues about the settlers' mobility and ethnic identity. By surveying the available evidence, this study aims in particular to understand the role played by non-Greek populations in the Seleukid Empire, trying to go beyond the thesis of an apartheid-like regime in which those ethnic groups would be socially as well as politically isolated from the Greco-Macedonian settlers.
Key words: Seleukid Empire, Ethnic Identity, Hellenism, Jews, Mobility, Macedonian.
In his celebrative portrait of the deeds accomplished by Seleukos I, Appian (Syr. 57) states that the king had founded many towns throughout his vast empire. From this particular point of view, the figure of Seleukos emerges not only as the continuator of Alexander the Great, the builder king par excellence, but also as a competitor of the Macedonian conqueror.
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- Colonization in the Ancient World , pp. 37 - 56Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2013