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

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

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	938 C738 2003	---	Available

Description	xxviii, 588 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Series	Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-566) and index.
Contents	1. Approaching the Hellenistic world / Andrew Erskine -- Part I: Narratives -- 2. After Alexander : the emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323-281 / David Braund -- 3. Uneasy balance : from the death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia / Sheila L. Ager -- 4. Arrival of Rome : from the Illyrian Wars to the fall of Macedon / Peter Derow -- 5. Subjection and resistance : to the death of Mithradates / Brian McGing -- 6. A Roman east : Pompey's settlement to the death of Augustus / Claude Eilers -- Part II: Protagonists -- 7. The Ptolemies and Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson -- 8. The Seleukids and Asia / Michel Austin -- 9. Macedon and the mainland, 280-221 / Joseph B. Scholten -- 10. Attalids of Pergamon / Elizabeth Kosmetatou -- Part III: Change and continuity -- 11. Kings / John Ma -- 12. Cities / Richard Billows -- 13. Past in a Hellenistic present : myth and local tradition / Tanja S. Scheer -- 14. Space and geography / Klaus Geus -- Part IV: Greeks and others -- 15. Town and country in Ptolemaic Egypt / Jane Rowlandson -- 16. Jews and Greeks / Erich S. Gruen -- 17. The Galatians : representation and reality / Stephen Mitchell -- 18. Beyond Greeks and Barbarians : Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic age / Emma Dench -- Part V: Society and economy -- 19. Family structures / Riet van Bremen -- 20. Economy / Gary Reger -- 21. Reading the landscape : survey archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene / Susan E. Alcock, Jennifer E. Gates, Jane E. Rempel -- 22. Warfare / Patrick Baker -- 23. Piracy and the slave-trade / Vincent Gabrielsen -- Part VI: Gods and men -- 24. Hellenistic religion / David Potter -- 25. Divinity of Hellenistic rulers / Angelos Chaniotis -- Part VII: Arts and sciences -- 26. Empires of knowledge : medicine and health in the Hellenistic world / Rebecca Flemming -- 27. Institutions of Hellenistic philosophy / Phillip Mitsis -- 28. Literature and its contexts / Richard Hunter -- 29. Hellenistic art, AD 1500-2000 / Andrew Stewart.
Subject	Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476.
	Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.
	Greece -- History -- 281-146 B.C.
	Hellenism.
Added Author	Erskine, Andrew.
ISBN	0631225374 (alk. paper)