A Companion To The Hellenistic World

by Erskine, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781405132787
• ISBN10: 1405132787
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritative Companion explores the world that Alexander created but did not live to see. Drawing on the very latest research, a team of international scholars creates a picture of the Hellenistic realm in all its complexity and diversity. The Companion examines the impact of Alexanderrs"s conquest of the Persian empire, the emergence of the successor kingdoms in Macedon, Egypt and Syria, and the later development of Roman rule in the east. In such eventful times questions of change and continuity loom large. Narrative chapters give readers a sense of the sweep of Hellenistic history, while thematic chapters range widely, exploring the relationship between Greeks and non-Greeks, religious developments, social and economic change, medicine, literature and art. This volume will be welcomed by students and professional historians alike as a personal reference source and will form the ideal basis for university courses on Hellenistic history.

Author Biography

Andrew Erskine is Head of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action (1990) and Troy between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power (2001). He has held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the University of Munich.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
List of Contributors	xii
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgements	xviii
Ancient Authors: Abbreviations and Glossary	xix
Reference Works: Abbreviations	xxiv
Approaching the Hellenistic World	1	(16)
Andrew Erskine
Part I Narratives	17	(86)
After Alexander: the Emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323--281	19	(16)
David Braund
An Uneasy Balance: from the Death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia	35	(16)
Sheila L. Ager
The Arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the Fall of Macedon	51	(20)
Peter Derow
Subjection and Resistance: to the Death of Mithradates	71	(19)
Brian McGing
A Roman East: Pompey's Settlement to the Death of Augustus	90	(13)
Claude Eilers
Part II Protagonists	103	(72)
The Ptolemies and Egypt	105	(16)
Dorothy J. Thompson
The Seleukids and Asia	121	(13)
Michel Austin
Macedon and the Mainland, 280-221	134	(25)
Joseph B. Scholten
The Attalids of Pergamon	159	(16)
Elizabeth Kosmetatou
Part III Change and Continuity	175	(72)
Kings	177	(19)
John Ma
Cities	196	(20)
Richard Billows
The Past in a Hellenistic Present: Myth and Local Tradition	216	(16)
Tanja S. Scheer
Space and Geography	232	(15)
Klaus Geus
Part IV Greeks and Others	247	(64)
Town and Country in Ptolemaic Egypt	249	(15)
Jane Rowlandson
Jews and Greeks	264	(16)
Erich S. Gruen
The Galatians: Representation and Reality	280	(14)
Stephen Mitchell
Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic Age	294	(17)
Emma Dench
Part V Society and Economy	311	(94)
Family Structures	313	(18)
Riet van Bremen
The Economy	331	(23)
Gary Reger
Reading the Landscape: Survey Archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene	354	(19)
Susan E. Alcock
Jennifer E. Gates
Jane E. Rempel
Warfare	373	(16)
Patrick Baker
Piracy and the Slave-Trade	389	(16)
Vincent Gabrielsen
Part VI Gods and Men	405	(42)
Hellenistic Religion	407	(24)
David Potter
The Divinity of Hellenistic Rulers	431	(16)
Angelos Chaniotis
Part VII Arts and Sciences	447	(68)
Empires of Knowledge: Medicine and Health in the Hellenistic World	449	(15)
Rebecca Flemming
The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy	464	(13)
Phillip Mitsis
Literature and its Contexts	477	(17)
Richard Hunter
Hellenistic Art, AD 1500--2000	494	(21)
Andrew Stewart
Bibliography	515	(52)
Chronology	567	(7)
Index	574