Creating a Hellenistic World

by Erskine, Andrew; Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd; Carney, Elizabeth (CON); Colvin, Stephen (CON); Erskine, Andrew (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781905125432
• ISBN10: 1905125437
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-25
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the control of Macedonian kings until the arrival of the Romans. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. In this book, leading scholars in the field explore the creation of this Hellenistic world, its cultural, political and economic transformations, and how far these were a consequence of Alexander's conquests. New kingdoms were established, new cities such as Alexandria and Antioch were founded, art and literature discovered fresh patrons. Egyptians and Iranians had to come to terms with Graeco-Macedonian rulers and settlers, while Greeks and Macedonians learned the ways of more ancient cultures. The essays presented here offer an exciting interdisciplinary approach to the study of this emerging Hellenistic world, its newness but also its oldness, both real and imagined.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction
New Worlds
The first Hellenistic man	p. 1
The koine: A new language for a new world	p. 31
The letter of Aristeas	p. 47
Rulers and Subjects
The Silver Shields, Eumenes, and their historian	p. 61
From satrapy to Hellenistic kingdom: the case of Egypt	p. 83
Frataraka rule in Seleucid Persis: a new appraisal	p. 107
The Polis
Early Hellenistic Rhodes: the struggle for independence and the dream of hegemony	p. 123
The significance of Plataia for Greek eleutheria in the early Hellenistic period	p. 147
The Court
Between philosophy and the court: the life of Persaios of Kition	p. 177
Being royal and female in the early Hellenistic period	p. 195
How to many a courtesan in the Macedonian courts	p. 221
A key to Berenike's Lock? The Hathoric model of queenship in early Ptolemaic Egypt	p. 247
Changing Aesthetics
Against $: rethinking Hellenistic aesthetics	p. 271
Style, continuity and the Hellenistic baroque	p. 313
Index	p. 345
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