The intelectual elite of Babylon and the formation of the Seleucid Empire: Alterations and influences in the cuneiforme culture (IV-III a.C.)

• Grant number: 20/04735-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2020
• End date: February 01, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Aparecido Rede
• Grantee: Santiago Colombo Reghin
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/09825-9 - Babylon and the rise of the seleucids: the impacts of imperial integration in the local elite and scribal culture, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

We intend to investigate the formation of the Seleucid empire highlighting its relationship with the Babylonian elite, in order to detect the imperial strategies of annexation and appropriation of the local culture to form its structures of power and territorial representation. At the same time, we seek to analyze how the Babylonian elite reacts and / or cooperates with such policies. As main sources to reflect that questions we used cuneiform literary production, allowing us to thinking how its annexation to the Seleucids and a denser integration to an Afro-Euro-Asian world alters the local culture, being necessary to reconfigure the ways of representing its space, new semantic concepts and content, as well as new analogies and comparisons to enable the inclusion of new cultural references. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

REGHIN, Santiago Colombo. Babylonia and the formation of the Sleucids: impacts of imperial integration in the local elite and in the scribal culture (4th and 3rd centuries b.C.). 2023. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.