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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143314203321

Titolo

A companion to the Hellenistic world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Erskine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishing Lt, 2003

ISBN

0-470-99658-7

9786610748501

0-470-99731-1

1-78268-694-0

1-280-74850-8

1-4051-6589-8

1-4051-5441-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 595 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Altri autori (Persone)

ErskineAndrew

Disciplina

938.07

938/.07

Soggetti

Hellenism

Mediterranean Region History To 476

Greece History Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C

Greece History 281-146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-566) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to the Hellenistic World; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Ancient Authors: Abbreviations and Glossary; Reference Works: Abbreviations; 1 Approaching the Hellenistic World; PART I NARRATIVES; 2 After Alexander: the Emergence of the Hellenistic World,323-281; 3 An Uneasy Balance: from the Death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia; 4 The Arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the Fall of Macedon; 5 Subjection and Resistance: to the Death of Mithradates; 6 A Roman East: Pompey's Settlement to the Death of Augustus

PART II PROTAGONISTS7 The Ptolemies and Egypt; 8 The Seleukids and Asia; 9 Macedon and the Mainland, 280-221; 10 The Attalids of Pergamon; PART III CHANGE AND CONTINUITY; 11 Kings; 12 Cities; 13



The Past in a Hellenistic Present: Myth and Local Tradition; 14 Space and Geography; PART IV GREEKS AND OTHERS; 15 Town and Country in Ptolemaic Egypt; 16 Jews and Greeks; 17 The Galatians: Representation and Reality; 18 Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in theHellenistic Age; PART V SOCIETY AND ECONOMY; 19 Family Structures; 20 The Economy

21 Reading the Landscape: Survey Archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene22 Warfare; 23 Piracy and the Slave-Trade; PART VI GODS AND MEN; 24 Hellenistic Religion; 25 The Divinity of Hellenistic Rulers; PART VII ARTS AND SCIENCES; 26 Empires of Knowledge: Medicine and Health in the Hellenistic World; 27 The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy; 28 Literature and its Contexts; 29 Hellenistic Art, AD 1500-2000; Bibliography; Chronology; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 scholarsEssential reading for courses on Hellenistic historyCombines narrative and thematic approaches to the periodDraws on the very latest researchCovers a broad range of topics, spanning political, religious, social, economic and cultural history