CLAS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 1 Maccabees, Openair, Diadem
8 Mar 2016
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Lecture 5 in the wake of alexander the great. :1 er"s g en erals ass um e th e d iad em (th e s ym bol of royal authority) And when antigonos heard of the victory [of his son demetrios over ptolemy at the island of cyprus, 306. Ptolemy, however, not at all humbled in spirit by his defeat, also assumed the diadem and always signed himself king. And in a similar fashion in rivalry with them the rest of the dynasts also called themselves kings: Seleukos, who had recently gained the upper satrapies [provinces, i. e. , mesopotamia eastward], and. Lysimachos and kassander, who still retained the territories originally allotted to them. (diodoros 20. 53. 2-4) After this success [at cyprus in 306] the people for the irst time acclaimed antigonos and demetrios as kings. Antigonos was immediately crowned, and demetrios received a diadem from his father with a letter addressing him as king.
