Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

The Spread of Hellenism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Arabs
      - Iranians
      - Jewish population
      - Vast amount of languages and ethnic groups
    - - Mountainous --> breaking the region up
  - - - Seleukos Nikator was allocated as satrap of Babylonia
    - - Important symbol for the empire, due to their half Greek/Macedonian, half Iranian child
    - - BUT in 312 BC, reclaimed it with Ptolemy's help
    - - Diodorus 19.91 'When he pushed into Babylonia, most of the inhabitants came to meet him and, declaring themselves on his side, promised to aid him as he saw fit ... [for] he had shown himself generous to all [as satrap]'
      - Positive view of Seleukos in Babylon, and perhaps a more negative one of Antigonous
    - - Seleukos madę a deal wit the Mauryan king
        
        In order to establish peace and security
        
        Relinquished claims on their territory in return for elephants to use in battle Strabo, Geography 15.2.9
      - 301 BC --> Antigonous defeated at Ipsos by coalition of the kings
    - - Seleukos wins the battle of Corupedium, defeating Lysimachos
        
        Brought Asia Minor, Thracem and Macedon under his control
      - HOWEVER, he was assassinated by Ptolemy Keraunos
        
        His empire survived, with his son succeeding him
  - - - Highlighted how traditional scholarship has undermined the Eastern perspectives and purely focused on the Greeks'
      - Stressed the continuity of Persian predecessors
  - - - Begins 312 BC - the date of Seleukos' return to Babylon
      - This year-by-year dating system continued beyond the end of the dynasty
      - Appears on state documents and everyday objects
      - The Seleucids established this dating system from Seleukos' return from Babylon and did not reset upon each new king
      - Number written in reverse
      - Ideological way of helping the empire to cohere
  - - - Seleucis is also called a tetrapolis
        
        Due to the several outstanding cities in it
      - The 4 largest cities
        
        Antiocheia
        
        Seleuceia
        
        Apameia
        
        Laodiceia
      - One city named after his father (the largest), one after himself (the one most strongly fortified), one after his wife, and one after his mother Strabo 16.2.4
        
        Reinforces his family's control over the region
  - - - Recovering the original empire of Seleukos I
    - - Lost the western part of the empire
- - - - West and eastern harbour
      - Pharos island
  - - - New foundations or rebuilds of destroyed cities
      - Eg. Priene; Miletus
  - - - Descriptions by Classical, Arab, and other writers contemporary with the lifespan of the building
      - Coins from Alexandria
        
        Especially dating to the Roman times when Alexandria was a symbol of the empire
      - Terracottas
      - Mosaics
      - Underwater archeology
  - - - A kind of amalgamation between Orisis and Apis
      - Became associated with the Greek gods, Zeus, Hades, and Dionysus
      - Presented as a mature man
      - Sometimes he is shown besides a dog with 3 heads (Cerberus)
    - - Erected in honour of Diocletian
      - Corinthian column to support a red granite statue of Diocletian
      - Destroyed by a mob of Christians
      - 298-302 AD
    - - Steps to open colonnaded court
      - Temple
      - Underground passages
  - - - Features which would represent him as a Pharaoh
      - Pharaonic headdress
      - Egyptian style abstract features and formality
      - Continuity and legitimisation
      - Made from a local stone, basalt
    - - Features more personalised
      - Not wearing the Egyptian headdress
      - Similarities between features with Alexander
        
        Eg. twist of the neck
      - Makes himself more legitimate as a ruler of Egypt
      - Adheres to Greek standards