A companion to the Hellenistic world
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history
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Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996584 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 588 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-566) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780470996584 0470996587 9781405132787 1405132787 |
Index Number: | DE86 |
CLC: | K125 |
Contents: |
Approaching the Hellenistic world / After Alexander: the emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323-281 / An uneasy balance: from the death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia / The arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the fall of Macedon / Subjection and resistance: to the death of Mithradates / A Roman east: Pompey's settlement to the death of Augustus / The Ptolemies and Egypt / The Seleukids and Asia / Macedon and the mainland, 280-221 / The attalids of Pergamon / Kings / Cities / The past in a Hellenistic present: myth and local tradition / Space and geography / Town and country in Ptolemaic Egypt / Jews and Greeks / The Galatians: representation and reality / Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic age / Family structures / The economy / Reading the landscape: survey archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene / Warfare / Piracy and the slave-trade / Hellenistic religion / The divinity of Hellenistic rulers / Empires of knowledge: medicine and health in the Hellenistic world / The institutions of Hellenistic philosophy / Literature and its contexts / Hellenistic art, AD 1500-2000 / |