The Hellenistic monarchies : selected papers / Christian Habicht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Habicht, Christian.

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2006

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

Mediterranean Region.

History.

Greece--History--Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.

Greece.

Greece--History--281-146 B.C.

Hellenism.

Physical Description:

x, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, [2006]

Summary:

No aspect of the Hellenistic era has drawn more attention in recent decades than the monarchies that dominated its political, social, cultural, and economic life. Earlier generations of scholars believed that the Hellenistic period fostered its own peculiar style of autocracy, one that proved influential for centuries to come. More recently this view has been challenged, on the grounds of the heterogeneity of the regimes that the Hellenistic world produced.

Christian Habicht's work has reflected this intellectual transition. The present volume of new, newly translated, and republished selections documents the elements of government among the major Hellenistic monarchies. The volume includes sections on the important monarchies controlled by the Ptolemies and their contemporaries, and concludes with a postscript by the author on the four decades of his work in this area.

Christian Habicht, the author of many books and articles on the Hellenistic world, is among the foremost scholars who have examined this complex and important period. All research libraries and serious scholars of ancient history will want this important analytical volume.

Contents:

Chapter 1 On the Wars between Pergamon and Bithynia 1

Chapter 2 The Governor Hegemonides 22

Chapter 3 The Ruling Class in the Hellenistic Monarchies 26

Chapter 4 Rostovtzeff's Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World 41

Chapter 5 Epigraphic Evidence for the History of Thessaly under Macedonian Rule 59

Chapter 6 The Literary and Epigraphic Evidence for the History of Alexander and His First Successors 74

Chapter 7 A Thesprotian Nobleman in the Service of Ptolemy V 85

Chapter 8 Hellenism and Judaism in the Age of Judas Maccabaeus 91

Chapter 9 Royal Documents in 2 Maccabees 106

Chapter 10 Ambrakia and the Thessalian League at the Time of the War against Perseus 124

Chapter 11 Macadonians in Larisa? 134

Chapter 12 Supporters of King Perseus in Kos 148

Chapter 13 Argaeus, Ptolemy II, and Alexander's Corpse 153

Chapter 14 Athens and the Seleucids 155

Chapter 15 The Seleucids and Their Rivals 174

Chapter 16 A Hellenistic Inscription from Arsinoe in Cilicia / C. P. Jones 243

Chapter 17 Athens, Samos, and Alexander the Great 275

Chapter 18 Divine Honors for King Antigonus Gonatas in Athens 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0472111094

OCLC:

62282661

Publisher Number:

9780472111091