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‎Alexandreia Troas in the Hellenistic Period. War, Finance, and Civic Identity‎

‎, Brepols - American Numismatic Society, 2025 Hardback, Pages: xxviii + 234, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:47 b/w, 8 tables b/w., 27 b&w plates, Language: English. ISBN 9780897227438.‎

‎Summary This book uses the best but least exploited evidence we have for Alexandreia Troas-its coinage-to explore the city's Hellenistic history and the reception of that Hellenistic past in the imperial period after the polis was replaced by a Roman colony under Augustus. Alexandreia was especially valued by the various states that contended for control of the Greek world in the Hellenistic period for its strategic location at a crossroads in the eastern Mediterranean. As a result, the fate and fortunes of this community were tied to the shifting geopolitics of the Hellenistic world to an unusual degree. In the relative absence of other evidence, it is the coinage of Alexandreia that allows us to reconstruct the city's complex relations with external powers, to trace the community's struggle as a newly founded polis to define its place in the Greek world, and to understand how the city's Hellenistic past was rewritten in the imperial period. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Maps and Figures List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgments Abbreviations Credits Part I: Alexandreia Troas in the Hellenistic Period Introduction The Synoikism of Alexandreia Troas Alexandreia Troas in the Third Century Alexanders for the Attalids The Cult of Apollo Smintheus The Coinage in the Name of Apollo Smintheus Alexandreia Troas and the First Mithridatic War The Era of Alexandreia Troas Alexandreia Troas and Rome Alexandreia Troas and Its Past in the Time of Commodus Conclusions Part II: Catalogue Introduction to the Catalogue Alexandreia Troas: Persic-Weight Coinage Alexandreia Troas: Posthumous Alexanders Alexandreia Troas: Seleucid Coinage Alexandreia Troas: Apollo Smintheus Coinage Alexandreia Troas: Bronze Coinage Hamaxitos, Kebren, and Larisa: Bronze Coinage Alexandreia Troas: Figures for Gold and Silver Alexandreia Troas: Summary of Hoards for Gold and Silver Alexandreia Troas: Summary of Types for 2-4 Addenda and Corrigenda Bibliography Index of sources General index‎