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Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State
Häftad, 1997
350 kr
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Called by Plutarch "the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors," Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the first …
Into the Land of Bones
Alexander the Great in Afghanistan
Inbunden, 2005
818 kr
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What George W. Bush called the 'first war of the twenty-first century' actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Accounts of Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria read eerily like news from our own …
Cynics
The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
Häftad, 2000
457 kr
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This collection of essays--the first of its kind in English--brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, …
Faces of Power
Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
Inbunden, 1994
931 kr
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Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence-on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and reliefware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most …
Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind
Häftad, 1994
386 kr
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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul--an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic …
Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337–90 B.C.
Inbunden, 1997
746 kr
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A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body …
Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor
Inbunden, 1996
1165 kr
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This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference …
Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius
Inbunden, 1995
947 kr
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Arthur Eckstein's fresh and stimulating interpretation challenges the way Polybius' Histories have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint as from a pragmatic, utilitarian, or even "Machiavellian" one. Polybius particularly asks for …
Asylia
Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World
Inbunden, 1997
1168 kr
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In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon--mainly inscriptions and …
Politics of Plunder
Aitolians and their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279-217 B.C.
Inbunden, 2000
926 kr
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Between 279 and 229 B.C., the Aitolian koinon, a federation of mountain cantons in west central Greece, expanded to incorporate many of the neighboring lands and peoples lying between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. This new political configuration contributed to the development of modern systems of …
Hellenistic History and Culture
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 1996
441 kr
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In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A …
Hellenistic Constructs
Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography
Av Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
926 kr
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The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a …
Josephus's Interpretation of the Bible
Inbunden, 1999
1187 kr
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Josephus (A.D. 37-?100), a pro-Roman Jew closely associated with the emperor Titus, is the earliest systematic commentator on the Bible, as well as one of the foremost historians of the beginning of the Christian era. Politically, Josephus was pro-Roman, and although he had no sympathy for extreme …
Poetic Garlands
Hellenistic Epigrams in Context
Inbunden, 1998
864 kr
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Epigrams, the briefest of Greek poetic forms, had a strong appeal for readers of the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.). One of the most characteristic literary forms of the era, the epigram, unlike any other ancient or classical form of poetry, was not only composed for public recitation but was …
Religion in Hellenistic Athens
Inbunden, 1998
842 kr
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Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion …
Thundering Zeus
The Making of Hellenistic Bactria
Inbunden, 1999
658 kr
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"Thundering Zeus" uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century B.C. Diodotus I and II, whose …
Polyeideia
The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition
Inbunden, 2002
1099 kr
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This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other …
From Pergamon to Sperlonga
Sculpture and Context
Av Nancy T. de Grummond, Brunilde S. Ridgway
Inbunden, 2001
1043 kr
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This volume brings together the work of leading scholars on two of the most important, yet puzzling, extant ensembles of Hellenistic Age sculpture: the Great Altar at Pergamon, with its Gigantomachy and scenes from the life of Telephos, and the Cave at Sperlonga in Italy, with its epic themes …
Beginnings of Jewishness
Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties
Häftad, 2001
280 kr
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In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize …
Seeing Double
Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria
Inbunden, 2003
1181 kr
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When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, …
Stoic Studies
Av A. A. Long
Häftad, 2001
297 kr
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For the past three decades A. A. Long has been at the forefront of research in Hellenistic philosophy. In this book he assembles a dozen articles on Stoicism previously published in journals and conference proceedings. The collection is biased in favour of Professor Long's more recent studies of …
Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity
Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context
Inbunden, 2005
1027 kr
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In this thoughtful and penetrating study, Sara Raup Johnson investigates the creation of historical fictions in a wide range of Hellenistic Jewish texts. Surveying so-called Jewish novels, including the Letter of Aristeas, 2 Maccabees, Esther, Daniel, Judith, Tobit, Josephus's account of …
Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy
A Translation of The Heavens
Av Cleomedes
Inbunden, 2004
733 kr
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At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was "The Heavens" (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact …
Athens and Macedon
Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C.
Inbunden, 2003
1058 kr
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Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know - or might know - about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into …
Heritage and Hellenism
The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition
Häftad, 2002
471 kr
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The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and …
Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
Av Theocritus
Inbunden, 2003
1181 kr
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Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus' poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this …
Making of Fornication
Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity
Inbunden, 2003
1027 kr
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This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek …
Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories
Inbunden, 2004
755 kr
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Polybius was a Greek statesman and political prisoner of Rome in the second century b.c.e. His Histories provide the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire. In this original study informed by recent work in cultural studies and on ethnicity, Craige Champion demonstrates that …
Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa
Inbunden, 2006
887 kr
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This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen's organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red Sea …
Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions
Häftad, 2003
394 kr
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To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance - how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies - is the …
