Mundos em convergência : os selêucidas e o Oriente

Abstract

The Seleucid dynasty emerged during the Hellenistic Period after the first wars successions that occurred after the death of Alexander the Great. Dominating much of the Near East and the region of Syria and Asia Minor, the Seleucids had the challenge of integrate into multiple culturally distinct Eastern societies and to do so they made use of various strategies such as founding cities, refounding cities, appropriating existing political structures. The religion of Mesopotamia, an ancient region near the Tigris rivers and Euphrates (present-day Iraq), began to organize around the third millennium BCE and passed through several changes during three millennia, the period covered in the area of Eastern Antiquity. This work aims to study the transformations that religion Mesopotamia suffered in the Hellenistic period (4th-1st centuries BCE) during Seleucid domination in the Near East from the work Babyloniaca by the Mesopotamian priest Berosso. The work in Greek played a fundamental role in legitimizing the power of the Seleucid dynasty and in uniting of two worlds, the Hellenistic and the Mesopotamian.