Hellenistic Constructs : Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography / edited by Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey, and Erich S. Gruen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cartledge, Paul, editor.

Garnsey, Peter, editor.

Gruen, Erich S., editor.

Series:

Hellenistic culture and society ; Volume 26.

Hellenistic Culture and Society Series ; Volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hellenism.

Greece--Civilization.

Greece.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 319 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a wide-ranging exploration of current discoveries and questions. The twelve essays emphasize the cultural interaction of Greek and non-Greek societies in the Hellenistic period, in contrast to more conventional focuses on politics, society, or economy. The result of original research by some of the leading scholars in Hellenistic history and culture, this volume is an exemplary illustration of the cultural richness of this period. Paul Cartledge's introduction contains an illuminating introductory overview of current trends in Hellenistic scholarship. The essays themselves range over broad questions of comparative historiography, literature, religion, and the roles of Athens, Rome, and the Jews within the context of the Hellenistic world. The volume is dedicated to Frank Walbank and includes an updated bibliography of his work which has been essential to our understanding of the Hellenistic period.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Introduction

ONE. The Heroic Past in a Hellenistic Present

TWO. "These fragments have I shored against my ruins": Apollonios Rhodios and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age

THREE. Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context

FOUR. Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective: The Book of Daniel

FIVE. The Hellenistic World and Roman Political Patronage

SIX. Athens between Rome and the Kings: 229/8 to 129 B.C.

SEVEN. Poseidonios and Athenion: A Study in Hellenistic Historiography

EIGHT. The Middle Stoics and Slavery

NINE. Physis and Nomos: Polybius, the Romans, and Cato the Elder

TEN. The Court Society of the Hellenistic Age

ELEVEN. Decolonizing Ptolemaic Egypt

TWELVE. The Infrastructure of Splendour: Census and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt

PUBLICATIONS OF F. W. WALBANK

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520918337

0520918339

9780585160214

058516021X

OCLC:

1149480968