Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor

by: Ma, J.

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Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor
John Ma
Contains the text and new translations of Hellenistic inscriptions
The first major study to examine the relationship between the Hellenistic kings and the previously independent city states
The first detailed and well-documented overview of the history of the period (223-192 BC), which takes into account the new epigraphical findings and recent research
Maintains an original focus on the ways in which power expresses itself through language and on the contrast between imperial and local versions of history
Paperback edition includes a new preface and addenda.

Description
This important and wide-ranging work examines a test case for the relationship between the polis and the Hellenistic empire focusing specifically on the interaction between Antiochos III and the cities of Western Asia Minor (226-188 BC). Such a study is possible thanks to a rich epigraphical documentation which has been reproduced extensively and translated in an appendix to this book. Dr Ma approaches this material from a variety of angles: narrative history, structural analyses of imperial power, and analyses of the functions played by language and stereotype in the interaction between rulers and ruled. The result is to further a nuanced appreciation of the relation between the Hellenistic king and the Hellenistic polis by drawing attention to the power of the Hellenistic empires, to the capacity of political language to modify power relations, and to the efforts of the Hellenistic polis to preserve its sense of identity and civic pride, if not its political independence. This paperback edition includes a new preface and a section of addenda.

Table of Contents
Introduction: The Great King and the Cities
1:The Seleukid Past in Asia Minor
2:The Reconquest of Asia Minor: A Narrative (226 - 192 BC)
3:Empire as Structures
4:Empire as Interaction
Conclusion, Epilogue, Envoi: 'Once there was a King, Antiochos the Great ...'

Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor

by: Ma, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780199250516 / 978-0-19-925051-6
• ISBN-03: 0199250510 / 0-19-925051-0
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock