Hellenism and Persianism in Iran: Culture and Empire after Alexander the Great

2020/11/30 by Rolf Strootman · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient Near East History #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Honor #Context (archaeology) #Hegemony #Realm #Classics #Ancient history #German #Empire #Period (music) #History #Art #Law #Archaeology #Political science

paper · pdf · doi:10.1163/29497833-00701016

openalex publication_date 2020/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

T his contribution deals with the problem of Hellenism in the Iranicate World during the Hellenistic Period, especially in the context of Seleucid hegemony in Iran (ca. 300-150 BCE). By "Iranicate World" I mean "what is exquisitely called in the German cultural realm: iranische und iranisch geprgte Kulturen , as R. Shayegan put it". 2 But what is "Iranian"?

Citations

• Questions on the Date of the Hellenistic Pottery from Central Asia (Ai Khanoum, Marakanda and Koktepe)
• A Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period
• The Antiochus Cylinder, Babylonian Scholarship and Seleucid Imperial Ideology
• Peer Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic Age
• Complex Connections : Figurative Art from Akchakhan-Kala and the Problematic Question of Relations between Khorezm and Parthia

Cited by

• Satrapy of Armenia [wikipedia]