selucid dynasty

The study of the vast Seleucid colonization campaign has been plagued by a deficient amount of informative ancient sources and a lack of modern scholarly interest. To date only one work has been produced which focuses exclusively on the organization and administration of the colonies and within this work the author qualifies his study by stating that “having completed this work I am painfully aware of how little we actually know about the Seleucid colonization …

…reasons for colonizing, yet hellenizing the world was not one of them. In some ways, it did occur, however, it was not a Seleucid policy. However it was best to organize the city, in the way that would pacify the region and allow everyone to live in peace, would be the way that the Seleucids ran things. The organization into polis administration was simply that; an effective way of organizing the politics of the settlement.