A companion to the Hellenistic world

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Group Author: Erskine, Andrew.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: 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 /