Founded by Seleucus I Nicator after the breakup of Alexander's empire, the Seleucid Empire was the largest Hellenistic state, controlling the Iranian plateau and Levant before shrinking under Parthian and Roman pressure.
Progressively dismembered and finally extinguished in 63 BCE when the Roman general Pompey annexed the Syrian rump state as the province of Syria.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Seleucid Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 312 BC · 250 BC · 150 BC.
Places the Seleucid interlude in the context of Iranian continuity before and after Hellenistic rule.
The leading modern synthesis on Seleucid territorial identity, colonial policy, and ideology. Combines archaeological and textual evidence; the most-cited recent monograph on the empire.
The standard biography of the empire's founder, Seleucus I, tracing how the Seleucid state was assembled from Alexander's fragmented empire.