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By John D. Grainger. Oxford: 1990. Pp. xi + 253. $52.

This book, based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, aims at presenting the history of cities in a restricted part of the Seleucid Empire for its own sake and not simply as a facet of dynastic history. The area to which the term "Syria" is applied in the study is defined in the introduction as "bounded by the Taurus mountains on the north, the Euphrates river and the sea to the east and west, and the Eleutheros river on the south" (p. 2). In fact, the territory covered by the study does not reach the Taurus; it excludes Commagene, ...