A companion to the Hellenistic world / edited by Andrew Erskine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erskine, Andrew.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hellenism.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

Mediterranean Region.

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

Greece.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 595 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing Lt, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covering 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

Contents:

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 Augustus

PART 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

21 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-566) and index.

ISBN:

9786610748501

9780470996584

0470996587

9780470997314

0470997311

9781782686941

1782686940

9781280748509

1280748508

9781405165891

1405165898

9781405154413

1405154411

OCLC:

184983641