Aspects of Seleucid Iconography and Kinghsip

What can be inferred from archaeological records leads to think that iconography and kingship were strictly interrelated in the ancient world, the former being the visual language that was used for conveying royal propaganda through different media. This must have been particularly true for the Hellenistic world, and even more for Seleucid Asia, since Alexander had to face what remained of the monumental apparatus that magnified for centuries the figure of the great Persian kings. While in the Achaemenid empire the king’s image was foremost the “personification” of kingship, after Alexander the situation evolved and become progressively more complex.