The House of Seleucus, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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I must acknowledge the friendly help given me by Mr. D. G. Hogarth, who was good enough to struggle with some of my ms. When it was in a desperately amorphous stage, and by Mr. G. F. Hill of the British Museum, by whose advice I have been guided in choosing the coins for the plates I owe to Mr. Hill also my knowledge of the superb bust which has furnished the frontispieces. I have had the advantage of discussing some numismatic questions with Mr. G. Macdonald of Glasgow, who will shortly publish im portant work on the Seleucid coinage (in vol. Iii. Of the Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunteriari Collection). My brother, Professor Ashley Bevan, has given me the benefit of his special knowledge in an attempt to write the Semitic and Persian names on an approximately uniform system.
It is tiresome that at this date it is still necessary to explain one's transcription of Greek. Oh the principle of not giving forms which no one could pronounce in ordinary con versation without pedantry - Seleukos, etc - I have in proper names followed the usage, consecrated by the English literary tradition, of writing the Latin form. In the case of words not proper names I have transliterated the Greek. Surnames of kings and gods are in a sort of intermediate category, and here I have been inconsistent. But it is inevitable that where two distinct systems are in use joins should appear.
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I must acknowledge the friendly help given me by Mr. D. G. Hogarth, who was good enough to struggle with some of my ms. When it was in a desperately amorphous stage, and by Mr. G. F. Hill of the British Museum, by whose advice I have been guided in choosing the coins for the plates I owe to Mr. Hill also my knowledge of the superb bust which has furnished the frontispieces. I have had the advantage of discussing some numismatic questions with Mr. G. Macdonald of Glasgow, who will shortly publish im portant work on the Seleucid coinage (in vol. Iii. Of the Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunteriari Collection). My brother, Professor Ashley Bevan, has given me the benefit of his special knowledge in an attempt to write the Semitic and Persian names on an approximately uniform system.
It is tiresome that at this date it is still necessary to explain one's transcription of Greek. Oh the principle of not giving forms which no one could pronounce in ordinary con versation without pedantry - Seleukos, etc - I have in proper names followed the usage, consecrated by the English literary tradition, of writing the Latin form. In the case of words not proper names I have transliterated the Greek. Surnames of kings and gods are in a sort of intermediate category, and here I have been inconsistent. But it is inevitable that where two distinct systems are in use joins should appear.
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