Book contents
- 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
Die städtischen Eliten der Kolonien der syrischen Tetrapolis zwischen Seleukiden, Armeniern, Parthern und Römern
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
Abstract: The following paper proposes, for the first time, an exhaustive overview over the situation of the late-Hellenistic local elites of the Syrian tetrapolis (Antiochia, Seleucia, Apamea, Laodicea), a first part concerning the late-Seleucid situation from the death of Antiochus IV onwards, a second one the movemented decades of the Armenian, Parthian and Roman Republican era. Both parts first analyse the general political situation of the Syrian elites on the basis of our literary and numismatical sources in order to sketch the interaction between the respective communal and the imperial level, then systematically discuss the prosopographical evidence.
Key words: Syria, Antiochia, Seleucia, Apamea, Laodicea, Seleucids, Parthians, Armenia, Elites, Colonies, Prosopography, Numismatics.
Einleitung
Nordsyrien stellte seit der Herrschaft der Seleukiden eines der wichtigsten strategischen Gebiete des antiken Mittelmeerraumes dar. Mit der Gründung der aus dem Stadtviereck Antiocheia-Seleukeia-Apameia-Laodikeia bestehenden syrischen Tetrapolis und des sie umgebenden Rings weiterer Siedlungen unterlag die bis dahin weltpolitisch nur sekundär hervorgetretene Region einem massiven Hellenisierungs- und Urbanisierungsprozess, welcher das Gebiet zwischen Euphrat, Antitauros, Mittelmeer und Libanon in einen wichtigen Knotenpunkt wirtschaftlicher, politischer und militärischer Kontakte umwandeln sollte, in dem sich, als Resultat einer komplexen historischen Entwicklung, Laodikeia und Seleukeia zu den zentralen Hafenstädte Nordsyriens, Apameia zum logistischen Zentrum des seleukidischen Heeres und Antiocheia zur Hauptresidenz der Seleukiden entwickeln sollten; vier Städte, zu denen man schließlich seiner Bedeutung halber Arados hinzuzählen kann.
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- Colonization in the Ancient World , pp. 77 - 116Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2013