LEADER 04253nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910143314203321 005 20240410133207.0 010 $a0-470-99658-7 010 $a9786610748501 010 $a0-470-99731-1 010 $a1-78268-694-0 010 $a1-280-74850-8 010 $a1-4051-6589-8 010 $a1-4051-5441-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000341862 035 $a(EBL)284088 035 $a(OCoLC)437176032 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126197 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11148159 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126197 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10030568 035 $a(PQKB)11677401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC284088 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC350894 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL350894 035 $a(OCoLC)437213926 035 $a(PPN)162350074 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000341862 100 $a20020918d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the Hellenistic world$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Andrew Erskine 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Publishing Lt$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (xxviii, 595 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-22537-4 311 $a1-4051-3278-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [515]-566) and index. 327 $aA 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 327 $aPART 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 327 $a21 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 330 $aCovering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritative Companion explores the world that Alexander created but did not live to see. Comprises 29 original essays by leading international scholarsEssential reading for courses on Hellenistic historyCombines narrative and thematic approaches to the periodDraws on the very latest researchCovers a broad range of topics, spanning political, religious, social, economic and cultural history 410 0$aBlackwell companions to the ancient world.$pAncient history. 606 $aHellenism 607 $aMediterranean Region$xHistory$yTo 476 607 $aGreece$xHistory$yMacedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C 607 $aGreece$xHistory$y281-146 B.C 615 0$aHellenism. 676 $a938.07 676 $a938/.07 701 $aErskine$b Andrew$0487161 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910143314203321 996 $aCompanion to the Hellenistic world$91757250 997 $aUNINA