Review of Anagnostou-Laoutides & Pfeiffer (eds.), Culture and ideology under the Seleukids

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Culture and ideology under the Seleukids: unframing a dynasty.

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Stefan Pfeiffer, Culture and ideology under the Seleukids: unframing a dynasty. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xxii, 360. ISBN 9783110755626.

Review by
Benjamin Pedersen, The Danish Institute at Athens. benjamin.pedersen@diathens.gr

The book under review aims to put forth “a multi-angled (re-)appraisal of the cultural dynamics under the Seleukid regime from its establishment to its eventual submission to the Romans” (p. 1). The overarching goal is to treat the cultural and ideological lines of development in the Seleucid empire by embracing “the plurality of ancient evidence and examining the ideologies appended to it” to unframe issues “still palpable in the scholarship and offer a platform for debating them” (preface). ...

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