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Cover -- Beyond Alexandria -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Overview Map -- Introduction: Seleucid Literature On The Hellenistic Stage -- Introduction -- Seleucid Literature -- Royal Ideology And Court Literature -- What Is Literature? -- 1. Mapping The Realm -- Introduction -- The Literature Of The Generals -- Mapping The Realm: Mental Maps And The Spectre Of World Empire -- Patrocles: The Ends Of The Earth -- Demodamas: In The Footsteps Of Kings -- Megasthenes: Measuring The Immeasurable On The Hellenistic Stage: Knowledge And Appropriation In Geography -- 2. Babylon, City Of Kings -- Introduction -- Traditions About Babylon -- Berossus And The Babylonian Elites In Hellenistic Times -- The Kings And The City -- Adorning The City -- Preserving Kingship -- The Voice Of The Local Priests: Manetho And The Ptolemies -- 3. The Lock Of Berenice: Seleucid Crisis And The Ptolemaic Response -- Introduction -- Ptolemaic Ideology Of Royal Love In Callimachus' Lock Of Berenice -- Seleucid Narratives About Royal Love -- Cultural Polemic: The Lock Of Berenice And Barbarian Asia Cultural Polemic And The Third Syrian War -- Imperial Asia Past And Present -- Metapoetics And Interstate Rivalry -- 4. Poets And Politics At The Court Of Antiochus Iii -- Introduction -- Simonides: The Galatian Threat And The Struggle For Asia Minor -- The Galatians As Kingmakers In The 270s -- The Galatians In Asia Minor -- Euphorion Of Chalcis And The Literary Court -- Euphorion Of Chalcis As A Hellenistic 'poeta Doctus' -- Euphorion: A Seleucid Poet? -- Looking West: Hegesianax And The War With Rome -- Hegesianax Of Alexandria Troas And The Origins Of Rome Conclusion: The Fame Of The Seleucids -- Bibliography -- Index Marijn Visscher. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.