著者

田中 穂積

出版者

The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

雑誌

オリエント (ISSN:00305219)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.3, pp.43-56,222, 1969

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We cannot discuss the meaning of Hellenism in the eastern Hellenistic world without considering the activity of the Greek city. In pursuing this subject, we must consider how the Greek colonies built by the early kings of the Seleucids changed into real cities; but we cannot say which of the colonies were originally military and which were civil settlements. Many of them, of course, developed under the impetus of the expansion of the Hellenistic economic sphere. And we understand also that they were recognized as Greek cities by Antiochus III in connection with the general political situation both within and without the Seleucid realm. But material for the study of the Greek city in the east is imperfect. Therefore I re-examine the letter sent to Magnesia on the Maeander from Antioch in Persis (OGIS 233), the import of which is related to the festival of Artemis Leucophryene at Magnesia; the letter includes many problems: the relations of the Greek city in the east to the kings of the Seleucids and the Greek city on the western coast of Asia Minor, and the mutual connections between the Greek cities in the east. In this article I try to examine especially the extent and nature of Hellenism in the east.