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Chapter 4 - Seleucia Pieria in the Seleucid Period

from Part I - Beginnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

By
Eduardo García-Molina
Edited by
Andrea U. De Giorgi
Andrea U. De Giorgi
Affiliation:
Florida State University
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Summary

The historical discourse of Antioch cannot be divorced from that of its twin-sister Seleucia, founded in the same year and dynamically linked to the city on the Orontes.

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SeleuciaCoinagePolybiusPieria
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Antioch on the Orontes
History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
 , pp. 43 - 56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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