Edition |
[Updated edition]. |
Description |
xxiv, 970 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
Series |
Hellenistic culture and society ; 1 |
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Hellenistic culture and society ; 1.
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Note |
"A Centennial book"--P. before ser. t.p. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 909-928) and index. |
Note |
"Second printing with corrections, 1993"--verso of t.p. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Alexander's funeral games, 323-276 B.C. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316 -- Antigonus one-eye's bid for empire, 316-301 -- Demetrius of Phaleron : the philosopher-king in action -- Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and political disenchantment -- Theophrastus, Menander, and the transformation of attic comedy -- The politics of royal patronage : early Ptolemaic Alexandria -- Early Hellenistic art and its antecedents, 380-270 : space, pathos, realism ; or, the horse as critic -- The division of the spoils, 301-276 -- pt. 2. The Zenith century, 276-222 B.C. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239 -- The new urban culture : Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon -- The critic as poet : Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron -- Kingship and bureaucracy : the government of the successor kingdoms -- Armchair epic : Apollonius Rhodius and the voyage of Argo -- Events in the West : Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome -- Urbanized pastoralism, or vice versa : the Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas -- The road to Sellasia, 239-222 -- |
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pt. 3. Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. Polybius and the new era -- Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman factor, 221-196 -- The spread of Hellenism : exploration, assimilation, colonialism ; or, the dog that barked in the night -- Middle-period Hellenistic art, 270-150 : Si monumentum requiris... -- Production, trade, finance -- The individual and society : slavery, revolution, utopias -- Ruler cults, traditional religion, and the ambivalence of Tyche -- From Cynoscephalae to Pydna : the decline and fall of Macedonia, 196-168 -- pt. 4. The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. The wilderness as peace, 167-146 -- Mathematics and astronomy : the alternative immortality -- Technological developments : science as Praxis -- Hellenistic medicine; or, the eye has its limitations -- Hellenism and the Jews : an ideological resistance movement? -- Ptolemaic and Seleucid decadence and the rise of Parthia, 145-116 -- |
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pt. 5. Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. Mithridates, Sulla, and the freedom of the Greeks, 116-80 -- Late Hellenistic art, 150-30 : the mass market in nostalgia -- Foreign and mystery cults, oracles, astrology, magic -- Academics, skeptics, peripatetics, cynics -- The garden of Epicurus -- Stoicism : the wide and sheltering porch -- Caesar, Pompey, and the last of the Ptolemies, 80-30. |
Subject |
Mediterranean Region -- History.
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323 B.C.-281 B.C.
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Greece -- History -- 281 B.C.-146 B.C.
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Hellenism.
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ISBN |
0520056116 alkaline paper |
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0520083490 paperback |
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