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Divine Kings and Sacred Spaces: Power and Religion in Hellenistic Syria (301-64 BC)

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This research takes an integrative approach to the study of Hellenistic cult and cultic practices in an important part of western Asia by employing a combination of archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence.

Although any thorough investigation of Seleukid religion would prove illuminating in itself, this research uses religion as a lens through which to explore the processes of acculturation and rejection within a colonial context.

It discusses the state attitude towards, and manipulation of, both Hellenic and indigenous beliefs and places this within a framework developed out of a series of case studies exploring evidence for religion at a regional level.

The study outlines the development of religious practices and expression in the region which formed the birthplace of the modern world's three most influential monotheistic religions.

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Product Details
BAR Publishing
1407310542 / 9781407310541
Paperback / softback
939.43
15/12/2012
United Kingdom
187 pages
210 x 297 mm, 746 grams