04251nam 2200721 a 450 99644153990331620240410133207.00-470-99658-797866107485010-470-99731-11-78268-694-01-280-74850-81-4051-6589-81-4051-5441-1(CKB)1000000000341862(EBL)284088(OCoLC)437176032(SSID)ssj0000126197(PQKBManifestationID)11148159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126197(PQKBWorkID)10030568(PQKB)11677401(MiAaPQ)EBC284088(MiAaPQ)EBC350894(Au-PeEL)EBL350894(OCoLC)437213926(PPN)162350074(EXLCZ)99100000000034186220020918d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to the Hellenistic world[electronic resource] /edited by Andrew Erskine1st ed.Oxford ;Malden, MA Blackwell Publishing Lt20031 online resource (xxviii, 595 p.)Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-631-22537-4 1-4051-3278-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-566) and index.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 AugustusPART 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 Economy21 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; IndexCovering 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 historyBlackwell companions to the ancient world.Ancient history.HellenismMediterranean RegionHistoryTo 476GreeceHistoryMacedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.CGreeceHistory281-146 B.CHellenism.938.07938/.07Erskine Andrew487161MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996441539903316Companion to the Hellenistic world1757250UNISA