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Altay Coşkun

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ID3875102
NAMEAltay Coşkun
GIVEN NAMESAltay
FAMILY NAMECoşkun
SIGNATURECOSKUN A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Waterloo
ORCID0000-0002-4672-6195
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • The Books of the Maccabees: Literary, Historical, and Religious Perspectives, by Jan Willem van Henten, ed.

    Altay Coşkun, Benjamin Scolnic•ARTICLE•Journal for the Study of Judaism•2026

  • Mathianes, Son of Zaidaros, His Anonymous Son, and New Spotlights on Queen Dynamis of the Bosporus

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Gephyra•2026

    Two inscriptions naming a certain Mathianes can shed new light on the history of the Bosporus under Queen Dynamis (47/21 BC–AD 7/8). His tombstone depicts him mounted on a horse with a spear, probably hunting. The epitaph (SEG XLV 1018) names basilissa Dynamis as the one who commissioned the tomb. Since she is men-tioned without her epithet Philorhomaios, we can date Mathianes’ death during her first sole reign, 17/6–14 BC, perhaps even in a comb…

  • Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, by Daniel R. Schwartz

    Altay Coşkun, Benjamin Scolnic•ARTICLE•Journal for the Study of Judaism•2024

  • Imperial Homecoming(s) and the Ara Pacis Augustae in 13 BC

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Acta Antiqua Academiae…•2024

    After reflecting on the many dimensions that homecoming involves both in the present and in antiquity, the ceremonial enhancement of various returns of Caesar Augustus from military campaigns are briefly rehearsed through the Res Gestae Divi Augusti (4. 1–2) and other sources. These include the triumph following the battle of Actium (31/29 BC) and the celebration after the re-establishment of peace with the Parthians, which resulted in the cult o…

  • Von Kios nach Kimiata. Neue Überlegungen zur Chronologie des Mithradates von Kios und des Mithradates Ktistes sowie zur Gründung des Mithradatidenreiches

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Dialogues d histoire ancienne•2023

    Mithridate de Cius et son fils Mithridate I er Ctistes sont les « pères fondateurs » du royaume pontique, ainsi que le lien du dernier Mithridate avec la dynastie achéménide. Notre principale source d’information sur leur vie est Diodore (XVI, 90, 2; XIX, 40, 2; XX, 111, 4) : il donne des dates archontiques pour le début (337/36 avant J.-C.) et la fin (302/1 avant J.-C.) du règne de l’aîné Mithridate et compte également les années de son règne et…

  • Galatian Victories and Other Studies into the Agency and Identity of the Galatians in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods

    Altay Coşkun•BOOK•Galatian Victories and Other…•2022

  • The Stephanephorate of Apollo and the Historical Context of the Milesian Decree for Queen Apama (I.Didyma 480)

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Journal of Philia•2022

    Soon after the Battle of Ipsos (301 BCE), the Milesians honoured king Seleukos I, his son Antiochos (I), and his wife, queen Apama, in gratitude for promising to rebuild the Apollo temple at Didyma and erecting a stoa. The decrees for Antiochos (I.Didyma 479) and Apama (I.Didyma 480) are largely extant, and the latter provides the chronological anchor for all three honours. It mentions Apollo as , under whom the fi-nancial officials (anataktai) w…

  • Berenike Phernophoros and Other Virgin Queens in Early-Ptolemaic Egypt

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Klio•2022•References: 25

    The main function of Hellenistic queenship is increasingly understood as contributing to the definition of the basileus . The early Ptolemies produced the most peculiar version of the ‘sister queen’, known throughout the Near East as an ideological construct, but taken literally in Egypt from the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285/282–246) and Arsinoe II Philadelphos (278/275–270), the ‘Sibling-Lovers’. The most famous example of a ‘virgin quee…

  • The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom

    Altay Coşkun, Andrea M Berlin et al.•BOOK•Middle Maccabees•2021

    The present narrative of Seleucid dynastic history is written against a scholarly background that tended to emphasize the weakness of the kingdom beginning with the death of Seleucus I Nicator (316/12–281). But there had been repeated recoveries throughout the 3rd century, before the realm was thriving again under Antiochus III Megas (223–187). His defeat by the Romans in 191/90 was harsh, but no final blow, and his son Antiochus IV Epiphanes (17…

  • Von Mithradates von Kios bis Mithradates V. Euergetes. Kritische Bemerkungen zu Duane Rollers „Empire of the Black Sea“

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Frankfurter elektronische…•2021•References: 10

  • The Chronology of the Asylia Dossier from Kos Revisited in Light of Some Recent Epigraphic Discoveries

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Journal of Philia•2021•Cited by: 1

    While the Third Syrian War was raging, the Koans deployed substantial diplomatic efforts to have the asylia of their Asklepieion and the panhellenic penteteric games recognized throughout the Mediterranean world. In the 1950s, Günther Klaffenbach and Mortimer Cham-bers presented what was to become the consensus chronology: they saw the theoroi visit sev-eral royal courts and many more Greek poleis largely in summer 242 BCE, before the first games…

  • Deiotaros (Deiotarus) of Galatia

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2020

    Deiotaros (ca. 120–41/40 bce ) was the most important Galatian ruler and the leading ally of the Romans in Asia Minor of his time. He succeeded his father Sinorix as tetrarch of the Tolistobogii, whose territory in eastern Phrygia included Gordion. Pompey rewarded his services against Mithradates VI by granting him parts of Pontos and Armenia Minor besides the royal title. After setbacks in the Roman Civil War, he was the first to unite all Galat…

  • Was Pednelissos a 'Galatian Polis A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul s Galatians

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Journal of Philia•2020

    Scholarship is divided whether Paul’s Letter to the Galatians addresses ethnic Galatians in or around Ankyra (North Galatian hypothesis) or other inhabitants in the south of the Roman pro-vince (South Galatian hypothesis). The South Galatian hypothesis, so it is argued, should no lon-ger draw on a lex sacra from Pisidian Pednelissos, which was traditionally dated to the 1st century (BC or AD), though should rather be considered early-Hellenistic.…

  • Dionysiac Associations among the Dedicants of Hosios kai Dikaios Revisiting Recently Published Inscriptions from the Mihalıççık District in North-West Galatia

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Gephyra•2020

    Four new epigraphic finds from the Mihalıççık District encourage us to reconsider the role that villages and associations played among those who made dedications to the divine pair Hosios kai Dikaios. According to the distribution of the evidence, the cult originated and remained concentrated on the north-east of Phrygia Epiktetos, but spread all over western Asia Minor and even beyond. After surveying the documents known previously especially th…

  • Über den Hintergrund der Verbreitung des Kybele-Kultes im Westen der Mittelmeerwelt: Neuere Forschungen zum phrygisch-hellenistischen Pessinus

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Ancient Civilizations from…•2020•References: 2

    A broad literary tradition accounts for the transfer of Magna Mater (in the shape of a meteorite) from Pessinus to Rome in 205 BCE . The evidence includes many details regarding the mythical aetiology and institutional organization of the cult. However, our main source, Livy 29.10.4-29.11.8 & 29.14.5-14, is viewed with ever growing suspicion, partly due to contradictions with other witnesses, partly because the scarce archaeological material from…

  • Rome and the Seleukid East: Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21-23 August 2015

    Altay Coşkun, David Engels•BOOK•Rome and the Seleukid East•2019

    "Seleukos I (312-281) was the strongest among the Successors of Alexander the Great, and his territory extended as far as Thrace in the West and Pakistan in the East for over a century. His kingdom reached a new pinnacle under Antiochos III (223-187), who combined military vigour with political skill, but also bears responsibility for its harsh defeat at the hands of the Romans, the ascending superpower in the Mediterranean. This failure did not …

  • The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•The Classical World•2019

    Reviewed by: The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden Altay Coşkun Daniel Ogden. The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 386. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-16478-9. The past decade alone has produced far more than a dozen books that scrutinize Seleucid biographies or the history of the dynasty, its kingdo…

  • The Course of Pharnakes II's Pontic and Bosporan Campaigns in 48/47 B.C

    Coşkun, Altay Coşkun et al.•ARTICLE•Phoenix•2019

    The course and strategy of Pharnakes ii's Pontic and Bosporan campaigns (48-47 b.c.) are reconstructed by contrasting the literary accounts: Cassius Dio 42.45–47 is accurate but short; the Caesarian Bellum Alexandrinum 34–78 is reliable, but omits information not directly relevant to Pontus; Appian (Mithr. 120.590–595) provides additional details, although misrepresenting itinerary and causation due to his narratological design and moralizing pur…

  • The Latins and Their Legal Status in the Context of the Cultural and Political Integration of Pre- and Early Roman Italy

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Klio•2016•References: 1

    Traditional concepts of ‚Romanization‘ prior to the Social War are currently meeting with growing criticism. Converging developments in Italy are no longer uniformly explained with deliberate Roman agency or an inescapably attractive Roman model. This context offers an intriguing framework for a renewed discussion of the ‚Latin Rights‘: while previously viewed as a major catalyst for legal and political integration, a recent study has argued that…

  • Perikles und die Definition des Bürgerrechts im klassischen Athen. Neue Vorschläge zu Inhalt, Zeitpunkt, Hintergrund und Auswirkung seines Bürgerrechtsgesetzes

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Historische Zeitschrift•2014

    Ein Gesetz des Perikles band das Athener Bürgerrecht an die beidseitige bürgerliche Abstammung ([Aristot.] Ath. pol. 26,3f.; Plut. Perikl. 37,3–5; Ail. var. 6,10; 13,24). Bisherige Versuche, Hintergrund, Zweck und Reichweite des Gesetzes zu erklären, leiden daran, dass sie seinen rückwirkenden Charakter leugnen sowie nicht belegte Ausnahmen aufgrund anachronistischer Erwägungen voraussetzen. Jedoch beweist die für 445/44 v. Chr. bezeugte Ausbürge…

  • Die Menoniden von Pharsalos: Proxenoi der Athener im 5. Jh. v. Chr

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Hermès•2013

    According to Dem. or. 23.199, Menon of Phasalos was honoured with Athenian citizenship for rescuing Eion. If this happened in 476 BC as commonly assumed, this would have been the only case of franchise through the assembly to predate Pericles’ law of citizenship. The Eion episode should thus rather be dated to 424 BC, even though the historian Thukydides claims the merit of saving the city for himself without mentioning the Pharsalian (Thuk. IV 1…

  • Weitere Überlegungen zu den Voraussetzungen und Folgen des Perikleischen Bürgerrechtsgesetzes: Naturalisierung und Epigamie im Klassischen Athen

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Klio•2013•References: 1

    This study departs from the recent re-assessment of Pericles’ Citizenship Law: it made descent from two citizen parents a necessary requirement for citizenship, without allowing for any deadlines or exemptions. Behind this background, at first all traces of potential exceptions that might have been formulated in the law are considered - and rejected. However, special regulations would still have been necessary, if one posits that the assembly of …

  • Deiotaros of Galatia

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Deiotaros (ca. 120–41/40 BCE ) was the most important Galatian ruler and the leading ally of the Romans in Asia Minor of his time. He succeeded his father Sinorix (Ogis I 347) as tetrarch of the Tolistobogii, whose territory included the castles of Blukion and Peion north of the Sangarius bend, and the region around Gordion (Strabo 12.3.13, 12.5.1f.).

  • Deconstructing a Myth of Seleucid History: The So-Called "Elephant Victory" Revisited

    Altay Cokun, Altay Coşkun et al.•ARTICLE•Phoenix•2012•Cited by: 6•References: 2

    It is commonly believed that Antiochus i's war elephants defeated the Galatians (275/268 b.c.), earning him Soter cults in the Greek cities. However, the evidence for this view is scarce, late, and incompatible with the effective continuity of Galatian dominance in western Asia Minor. Apparently, Antiochus' victory was diplomatic and propagandistic rather than martial

  • Galatische Legionäre in Ägypten: Die Konstituierung der legio XXII Deiotariana in der frühen Kaiserzeit

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Tyche•2009•References: 9

    Die Waffenhilfe galatischer ,Freunde und Verbündete' für die römische Hegemonialmacht ist seit dem späteren 2. Jh. v. ehr. bezeugt und wurde in den Tagen des Deiotaros Philorhomaios (ca. 120-41140 v. ehr.) zu einer Selbstverständlichkeit römischer Kriegführung im Orient. Daß die Reichszentrale auch nach der Provinzialisierung Galatiens im Jahr 25 v. ehr. nicht auf diese Unterstützung verzichten wollte, geht nicht zuletzt aus der massiven Präsenz …

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  • Deconstructing a Myth of Seleucid History: The So-Called "Elephant Victory" Revisited

    Altay Cokun, Altay Coşkun et al.•ARTICLE•Phoenix•2012•Cited by: 6•References: 2

    It is commonly believed that Antiochus i's war elephants defeated the Galatians (275/268 b.c.), earning him Soter cults in the Greek cities. However, the evidence for this view is scarce, late, and incompatible with the effective continuity of Galatian dominance in western Asia Minor. Apparently, Antiochus' victory was diplomatic and propagandistic rather than martial

  • Die Programmgedichte des Prudentius: Praefatio und epilogus

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Antikes…•2003•Cited by: 2

    Article Die Programmgedichte des Prudentius: praefatio und epilogus was published on April 14, 2003 in the journal Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity (volume 7, issue 2)

  • The Chronology of the Asylia Dossier from Kos Revisited in Light of Some Recent Epigraphic Discoveries

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Journal of Philia•2021•Cited by: 1

    While the Third Syrian War was raging, the Koans deployed substantial diplomatic efforts to have the asylia of their Asklepieion and the panhellenic penteteric games recognized throughout the Mediterranean world. In the 1950s, Günther Klaffenbach and Mortimer Cham-bers presented what was to become the consensus chronology: they saw the theoroi visit sev-eral royal courts and many more Greek poleis largely in summer 242 BCE, before the first games…

  • Ammianus Marcellinus und die Prozesse in Rom (a. 368/69-71/74)

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Tyche•2001•References: 5

    1. Skizze der Ereignisse nach der Schilderung des Amrnianus Marcellinus (28, 1)2. Der Beginn der Prozeßwelle2.1 Der chronologische Rahmen2.2 Das erudele praeeeptum3. Der Höhepunkt: Das Verlahren gegen Hymetius und die Senatsgesandtschaft3.1 Kritik an der Darstellung Amrnians3.2 Gegenvorschläge4. Das Ende der Verlolgungen und die Amtszeiten der viearii urbis a. 370-784.1 Die Darstellung Ammians und ihre Probleme4.2 Ansätze zu einer Problemlösung4.…

  • Ein geheimnisvoller gallischer Beamter in Rom, ein Sommerfeldzug Valentinians und weitere Probleme in Ausonius' Mosella

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Revue des Études Anciennes•2002

    Pour beaucoup, Ausone aurait composé la Moselle (autrefois datée de 371/372 ap. J.-C.) entre 367 et 375, en y apportant des révisions jusqu'en 379. L'analyse historique suggère que le poète a commencé son travail durant l'automne 369, et qu'il l'a terminé à l'été 370 au plus tard ; on doit considérer les 483 vers du poème comme une création cohérente. Une première analyse révèle que le magistrat romain anonyme (v. 409) ne peut pas être identifié …

  • Die Programmgedichte des Prudentius: Praefatio und epilogus

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Antikes…•2003•Cited by: 2

    Article Die Programmgedichte des Prudentius: praefatio und epilogus was published on April 14, 2003 in the journal Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity (volume 7, issue 2)

  • Die Praefecti praesent(al)es und die Regionalisierung der Praetorianerpraefecturen im vierten Jahrhundert

    Altay Coşkun•CHAPTER•Millennium-Jahrbuch, vol. 1 (2004)•2004

  • Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, Der Praefectus und Consul des Carmen contra paganos

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Vigiliae Christianae•2004

    After a general caveat concerning the interpretation of polemical pamphlets, various chronologically relevant aspects of the so-called Carmen contra paganos are revisited. In particular, the recent identification of the anonymous praefectus and consul with Vettius Agorius Praetextatus is challenged by reasserting the classical identification with Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. Thus the composition of the poem can be dated to the aftermath of the ba…

  • The Eucharisticos of Paulinus Pellaeus: Towards a Reappraisal of the Worldly Convert's Life and Autobiography

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Vigiliae Christianae•2006

    After a sketch of Paulinus' autobiography, his spiritual life is outlined, whereby the view of his adherence to a 'heresy' is rejected. Next the intentions underlying the composition of the Eucharisticos are reconsidered: they are to be sought in the author's need to reassure and to comfort himself rather than to impress his contemporaries. Instead of censuring the poem as marred with inconsistencies-many of which are rather due to modern misread…

  • Galatische Legionäre in Ägypten: Die Konstituierung der legio XXII Deiotariana in der frühen Kaiserzeit

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Tyche•2009•References: 9

    Die Waffenhilfe galatischer ,Freunde und Verbündete' für die römische Hegemonialmacht ist seit dem späteren 2. Jh. v. ehr. bezeugt und wurde in den Tagen des Deiotaros Philorhomaios (ca. 120-41140 v. ehr.) zu einer Selbstverständlichkeit römischer Kriegführung im Orient. Daß die Reichszentrale auch nach der Provinzialisierung Galatiens im Jahr 25 v. ehr. nicht auf diese Unterstützung verzichten wollte, geht nicht zuletzt aus der massiven Präsenz …

  • Buchbesprechungen

    Open Access•Hans Förster, Altay Coşkun et al.•ARTICLE•Tyche•2009•References: 2

    Die Anfnge des Werkes liegen in der im Jahr 2000 abgeschlossenen Dissertation des Verfassers, der ein langes Kapitel aus dieser als Grundlage des vorliegenden Buches verwendet hat. Das Buch gliedert sich in insgesamt 14 Kapitel, es folgen zwei Tabellen, eine ausfhrliche Bibliographie und die Indices. Ziel des Werkes ist, aufgrund akribischer Lektre der gyptischen dokumentarischen Quellen des vierten Jahrhunderts Zuordnungen hinsichtlich von Relig…

  • Deiotaros of Galatia

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Deiotaros (ca. 120–41/40 BCE ) was the most important Galatian ruler and the leading ally of the Romans in Asia Minor of his time. He succeeded his father Sinorix (Ogis I 347) as tetrarch of the Tolistobogii, whose territory included the castles of Blukion and Peion north of the Sangarius bend, and the region around Gordion (Strabo 12.3.13, 12.5.1f.).

  • Deconstructing a Myth of Seleucid History: The So-Called "Elephant Victory" Revisited

    Altay Cokun, Altay Coşkun et al.•ARTICLE•Phoenix•2012•Cited by: 6•References: 2

    It is commonly believed that Antiochus i's war elephants defeated the Galatians (275/268 b.c.), earning him Soter cults in the Greek cities. However, the evidence for this view is scarce, late, and incompatible with the effective continuity of Galatian dominance in western Asia Minor. Apparently, Antiochus' victory was diplomatic and propagandistic rather than martial

  • Die Menoniden von Pharsalos: Proxenoi der Athener im 5. Jh. v. Chr

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Hermès•2013

    According to Dem. or. 23.199, Menon of Phasalos was honoured with Athenian citizenship for rescuing Eion. If this happened in 476 BC as commonly assumed, this would have been the only case of franchise through the assembly to predate Pericles’ law of citizenship. The Eion episode should thus rather be dated to 424 BC, even though the historian Thukydides claims the merit of saving the city for himself without mentioning the Pharsalian (Thuk. IV 1…

  • Weitere Überlegungen zu den Voraussetzungen und Folgen des Perikleischen Bürgerrechtsgesetzes: Naturalisierung und Epigamie im Klassischen Athen

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Klio•2013•References: 1

    This study departs from the recent re-assessment of Pericles’ Citizenship Law: it made descent from two citizen parents a necessary requirement for citizenship, without allowing for any deadlines or exemptions. Behind this background, at first all traces of potential exceptions that might have been formulated in the law are considered - and rejected. However, special regulations would still have been necessary, if one posits that the assembly of …

  • Perikles und die Definition des Bürgerrechts im klassischen Athen. Neue Vorschläge zu Inhalt, Zeitpunkt, Hintergrund und Auswirkung seines Bürgerrechtsgesetzes

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Historische Zeitschrift•2014

    Ein Gesetz des Perikles band das Athener Bürgerrecht an die beidseitige bürgerliche Abstammung ([Aristot.] Ath. pol. 26,3f.; Plut. Perikl. 37,3–5; Ail. var. 6,10; 13,24). Bisherige Versuche, Hintergrund, Zweck und Reichweite des Gesetzes zu erklären, leiden daran, dass sie seinen rückwirkenden Charakter leugnen sowie nicht belegte Ausnahmen aufgrund anachronistischer Erwägungen voraussetzen. Jedoch beweist die für 445/44 v. Chr. bezeugte Ausbürge…

  • The Latins and Their Legal Status in the Context of the Cultural and Political Integration of Pre- and Early Roman Italy

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Klio•2016•References: 1

    Traditional concepts of ‚Romanization‘ prior to the Social War are currently meeting with growing criticism. Converging developments in Italy are no longer uniformly explained with deliberate Roman agency or an inescapably attractive Roman model. This context offers an intriguing framework for a renewed discussion of the ‚Latin Rights‘: while previously viewed as a major catalyst for legal and political integration, a recent study has argued that…

  • Rome and the Seleukid East: Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21-23 August 2015

    Altay Coşkun, David Engels•BOOK•Rome and the Seleukid East•2019

    "Seleukos I (312-281) was the strongest among the Successors of Alexander the Great, and his territory extended as far as Thrace in the West and Pakistan in the East for over a century. His kingdom reached a new pinnacle under Antiochos III (223-187), who combined military vigour with political skill, but also bears responsibility for its harsh defeat at the hands of the Romans, the ascending superpower in the Mediterranean. This failure did not …

  • The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•The Classical World•2019

    Reviewed by: The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden Altay Coşkun Daniel Ogden. The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 386. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-16478-9. The past decade alone has produced far more than a dozen books that scrutinize Seleucid biographies or the history of the dynasty, its kingdo…

  • The Course of Pharnakes II's Pontic and Bosporan Campaigns in 48/47 B.C

    Coşkun, Altay Coşkun et al.•ARTICLE•Phoenix•2019

    The course and strategy of Pharnakes ii's Pontic and Bosporan campaigns (48-47 b.c.) are reconstructed by contrasting the literary accounts: Cassius Dio 42.45–47 is accurate but short; the Caesarian Bellum Alexandrinum 34–78 is reliable, but omits information not directly relevant to Pontus; Appian (Mithr. 120.590–595) provides additional details, although misrepresenting itinerary and causation due to his narratological design and moralizing pur…

  • Deiotaros (Deiotarus) of Galatia

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2020

    Deiotaros (ca. 120–41/40 bce ) was the most important Galatian ruler and the leading ally of the Romans in Asia Minor of his time. He succeeded his father Sinorix as tetrarch of the Tolistobogii, whose territory in eastern Phrygia included Gordion. Pompey rewarded his services against Mithradates VI by granting him parts of Pontos and Armenia Minor besides the royal title. After setbacks in the Roman Civil War, he was the first to unite all Galat…

  • Was Pednelissos a 'Galatian Polis A Note on SEG II 710 and the Debate on the Location of Paul s Galatians

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Journal of Philia•2020

    Scholarship is divided whether Paul’s Letter to the Galatians addresses ethnic Galatians in or around Ankyra (North Galatian hypothesis) or other inhabitants in the south of the Roman pro-vince (South Galatian hypothesis). The South Galatian hypothesis, so it is argued, should no lon-ger draw on a lex sacra from Pisidian Pednelissos, which was traditionally dated to the 1st century (BC or AD), though should rather be considered early-Hellenistic.…

  • Dionysiac Associations among the Dedicants of Hosios kai Dikaios Revisiting Recently Published Inscriptions from the Mihalıççık District in North-West Galatia

    Open Access•Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Gephyra•2020

    Four new epigraphic finds from the Mihalıççık District encourage us to reconsider the role that villages and associations played among those who made dedications to the divine pair Hosios kai Dikaios. According to the distribution of the evidence, the cult originated and remained concentrated on the north-east of Phrygia Epiktetos, but spread all over western Asia Minor and even beyond. After surveying the documents known previously especially th…

  • Über den Hintergrund der Verbreitung des Kybele-Kultes im Westen der Mittelmeerwelt: Neuere Forschungen zum phrygisch-hellenistischen Pessinus

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Ancient Civilizations from…•2020•References: 2

    A broad literary tradition accounts for the transfer of Magna Mater (in the shape of a meteorite) from Pessinus to Rome in 205 BCE . The evidence includes many details regarding the mythical aetiology and institutional organization of the cult. However, our main source, Livy 29.10.4-29.11.8 & 29.14.5-14, is viewed with ever growing suspicion, partly due to contradictions with other witnesses, partly because the scarce archaeological material from…

  • The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom

    Altay Coşkun, Andrea M Berlin et al.•BOOK•Middle Maccabees•2021

    The present narrative of Seleucid dynastic history is written against a scholarly background that tended to emphasize the weakness of the kingdom beginning with the death of Seleucus I Nicator (316/12–281). But there had been repeated recoveries throughout the 3rd century, before the realm was thriving again under Antiochus III Megas (223–187). His defeat by the Romans in 191/90 was harsh, but no final blow, and his son Antiochus IV Epiphanes (17…

  • Von Mithradates von Kios bis Mithradates V. Euergetes. Kritische Bemerkungen zu Duane Rollers „Empire of the Black Sea“

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  • The Chronology of the Asylia Dossier from Kos Revisited in Light of Some Recent Epigraphic Discoveries

    Altay Coşkun•ARTICLE•Journal of Philia•2021•Cited by: 1

    While the Third Syrian War was raging, the Koans deployed substantial diplomatic efforts to have the asylia of their Asklepieion and the panhellenic penteteric games recognized throughout the Mediterranean world. In the 1950s, Günther Klaffenbach and Mortimer Cham-bers presented what was to become the consensus chronology: they saw the theoroi visit sev-eral royal courts and many more Greek poleis largely in summer 242 BCE, before the first games…

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