{"product_id":"the-land-of-the-elephant-kings-space-territory-and-ideology-in-the-seleucid-empire-9780674986886","title":"The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan--the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests--the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the ancestral homeland of the dynasty. \u003ci\u003eThe Land of the Elephant Kings\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how the Seleucid kings, ruling over lands to which they had no historic claim, attempted to transform this territory into a coherent and meaningful space. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This engaging book appeals to the specialist and non-specialist alike. Kosmin has successfully brought together a number of disparate fields in a new and creative way that will cause a reevaluation of how the Seleucids have traditionally been studied.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jeffrey D. Lerner, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It is a useful and bright introduction to Seleucid ideology, history, and position in the ancient world.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jan P. Stronk, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Archaeology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKosmin, Paul J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Paul J. Kosmin is Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History at Harvard University. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSpear-Won Land: Sardis from the King's Peace to the Peace of Apamea\u003c\/i\u003e. Kosmin has been a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow and a PAW Fellow at Princeton University, as well as an Oliver Smithies Lecturer at the University of Oxford.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327004872978,"sku":"9780674986886","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38d9e3cd-689d-4a0e-bf54-412d701a6f36.jpg?v=1727708164","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-land-of-the-elephant-kings-space-territory-and-ideology-in-the-seleucid-empire-9780674986886","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}