A Companion to the Hellenistic World

by Editor: Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh, UK )

• ISBN13: 9780470997314
• ISBN10: 0470997311
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• 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. Comprises 29 original essays by leading international scholars. Essential reading for courses on Hellenistic history. Combines narrative and thematic approaches to the period. Draws on the very latest research. Covers a broad range of topics, spanning political, religious, social, economic and cultural history.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Ancient Authors: Abbreviations and Glossary

Reference Works: Abbreviations

Approaching the Hellenistic World

Narratives:

After Alexander: The emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323û281

An Uneasy Balance: From the Death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia

The Arrival of Rome: The Illyrian Wars to the Fall of Macedon

Subjection and Resistance: To the Death of Mithridates

A Roman East: PompeyÆs Settlement to the Death of Augustus

Protagonists:

The Ptolemies and Egypt

The Seleukids and Asia

Macedon and the Mainland, 280û221

The Attalids of Pergamon

Change and Continuity:

Kings

Cities

The Past in a Hellenistic Present: Myth and Local Tradition

Space and Geography

Greeks and Others:

Town and Country in Ptolemaic Egypt

Jews and Greeks

The Galatians: Representation and Reality

Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily

Society and Economy:

Family Structures

The Economy

Reading the Landscape

Warfare

Piracy and the Slave Trade

Gods and Men:

Religion

The Divinity of Hellenistic Rulers

Arts and Sciences:

Empires of Knowledge: Health and Medicine in the Hellenistic World

The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy

Literature and its Context

Hellenistic Art, AD 1500û2000

Bibliography

Chronology

Index

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