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Die städtischen Eliten der Kolonien der syrischen Tetrapolis zwischen Seleukiden, Armeniern, Parthern und Römern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2014

David Engels
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Université Libre de Bruxelles
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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.

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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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Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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