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Seleucid royal council (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Chief physician
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.05 Medicine and pharmacology
05.05.02 Physicians
05.05.02.01 Chief physician
Dressing in purple (1)
08 Administrative systems
08.02 Court ceremony
08.02.05 Dressing in purple (1)
Eunuchs
08 Administrative systems
08.01 Royal court
08.01.02 Royal entourage
08.01.02.03 Eunuchs
Royal council (1)
08 Administrative systems
08.01 Royal court
08.01.01 Royal advisors and ministers
08.01.01.02 Royal council (1)

Keywords
royal council
Seleucid Empire

Period
Hellenistic Empires
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Members of the Seleucid royal council were called “purpurati” [cf. the Assyrian “magnates”]. Craterus the Eunuch is the “chief physician; his rank is that of the first friend” [cf. the office of Chief Eunuch in Assyria].

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Livy 30.42.6
Livy 37.23.7

Simo Parpola

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