Alexandreia Troas in the Hellenistic Period

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.

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