About:

Valentina Cambruzzi

Position:

Affiliated Member

Nodes:

Geographies of Power

 

 

Seleukid royal identity and representation: literary and archaeological evidence in a glocal perspective

My dissertation project intends to investigate how the Seleukids used a web of connections with local communities of distinct cultures and traditions to build a new, shared identity. The aim is to work with languages, traditions, and various categories of evidence from various areas and epochs to demonstrate that the royal image of the Seleukid is a unicum in the Ancient Near Eastern as in Greek Hellenistic history. Relevance will be given to the royal titles, which are fundamental vessels of political thought in the Ancient Near Eastern tradition, as a partial development of the MD dissertation work.