The Hellenistic world : new perspectives / editor, Daniel Ogden ; contributors Sylvie le Bohec-Bouhet ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ogden, Daniel.

Le Bohec, Sylvie

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hellenism--Congresses.

Hellenism.

Civilization, Classical--Congresses.

Civilization, Classical.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Greece.

Civilization.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxv, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Swansea [Wales] : The Classical Press of Wales ; London : Duckworth ; Oakville, CT : The David Brown Book Co. [U.S. distributor], 2002.

Summary:

This volume assembles twelve challenging new papers by a distinguished international group of contributors focusing on the pivotal period between the death of Alexander the Great and the suicide of Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from settlement patterns, non-Greek populations and marginal peoples, through the personnel, rivalries and religious ideologies of the royal courts, to the wider question of the political structure of the Hellenistic world. Considerable attention is paid to the revolutionary art of the period and its reception by later generations.

Contents:

Introduction: From Chaos to Cleopatra / Daniel Ogden ix

Structure and System

1. The interpenetration of hellenistic sovereignties / John Davies 1

2. Eratosthenes' chlamys-shaped world: a misunderstood metaphor / Klaus Zimmermann 23

King and Court

3. The kings of Macedon and the cult of Zeus in the hellenistic period / Sylvie le Bohec-Bouhet, Translated by the editor 41

4. Hunting and the Macedonian elite: sharing the rivalry of the chase / Elizabeth Carney 59

5. The politics of distrust: Alexander and his Successors / Waldemar Heckel 81

Family and Kinship

6. O brother where art thou? Tales of kinship and diplomacy / Andrew Erskine 97

7. The Egyptian elite in the early Ptolemaic period. Some hieroglyphic evidence / Alan B. Lloyd 117

8. Families in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy Thompson 137

Landscape and People

9. The king and his land. Some remarks on the royal area (basilike chora) of hellenistic Asia Minor / Christian Mileta 157

10. Hidden landscapes: Greek field survey data and hellenistic history / Graham Shipley 177

11. Steppe and sea: the hellenistic north in the Black Sea region before the first century BC / David Braund 199

Art and Image

12. Hellenistic mosaics / Ruth Westgate 221

13. How the Venus de Milo lost her arms / Shelley Hales 253

14. Celluloid Cleopatras or Did the Greeks ever get to Egypt? / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 275.

Notes:

"The papers collected here proceed from a colloquium organized by the University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History ... at Hay-on-Wye, July 17-19, 2000."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0715631802

OCLC:

52900558