Paul J. Kosmin is Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History at Harvard University. He is coeditor of Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea. 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.
It is a useful and bright introduction to Seleucid ideology,
history, and position in the ancient world.
*American Journal of Archaeology*
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.
*American Historical Review*
This fresh and thoroughly enjoyable account of the Seleucid kingdom
is dedicated to understanding how one of the great states of the
Hellenistic world was formed and how it actually worked. Although
often understood as little more than a placeholder existing in time
between Alexander's conquest of the east and the coming of Rome
some three centuries later, Kosmin dispels such facile notions and
breathes considerable new life into Seleucid history. Deeply
researched and engagingly written, Kosmin's book will be required
reading for all those interested in understanding the history of
this crucially important and still relevant part of the world that
stretches from present-day Syria to Afghanistan.
*Joseph Manning, Yale University*
The Land of the Elephant Kings is unusual and original, and I have
no doubt that it will find a large and appreciative audience. It is
a lively addition to the literature on the Seleucids.
*Nicholas Purcell, Oxford University*
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