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Alexander to Actium The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, Peter Green
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520083490
ISBN-13
9780520083493
eBay Product ID (ePID)
325056
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
970 Pages
Publication Name
Alexander to Actium : the Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Subject
Ancient / General, Ancient / Greece, History & Theory
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Series
Hellenistic Culture and Society Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
2.1 in
Item Weight
72.1 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
19
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
938
Table Of Content
LIST OF MAPS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART ONE. ALEXANDER'S FUNERAL GAMES, 323-276 B.C. 1. Pcrdiccas, Eumcnes, Cassandcr, 323-316 2. Antigonus One-Eye's Bid for Empire, 316-301 3. Demetrius of Phaleron: The Philosopher-King in Action 4. Zcno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and Political Disenchantment J. Theophrastus, Menander, and the Transformation of Attic Comedy 6. The Politics of Royal Patronage: Early Ptolemaic Alexandria 7. Early Hellenistic Art and Its Antecedents, 380-270: Space, Pathos, Realism; or, The Horse as Critic 8. The Division of the Spoils, 301-276 PART TWO. THE ZENITH CENTURY, 276-222 B.C. 9. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239 10. The New Urban Culture: Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon 11. The Critic as Poet: Calli mach us, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron 12. Kingship and Bureaucracy: The Government of the Successor Kingdoms 13. Armchair Epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the Voyage of Argo 14. Events in the West: Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome 15. Urbanized Pastoralism, or vice versa: The Idylls of Theocritus, the ,Wimes of Herod as 16. The Road to Sellasia, 239-222 PART THREE. PHALANX AND LEGION, 221-168 B.C. 17. Polybius and the New Era 18. Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman Factor, 221-196 19. The Spread of Hellenism: Exploration, Assimilation, Colonialism; or, The Dog That Barked in the Night 20. Middle-Period Hellenistic Art, 270-150: Si monumentum requiris ... 21. Production, Trade, Finance 22. The Individual and Society: Slavery, Revolution, Utopias 23. Ruler Cults, Traditional Religion, and the Ambivalence ofTyche 24. From Cynoscephalae to Pydna: The Decline and Fall of Macedonia, 196-168 PART FOUH. THE BREAKING OF NATIONS, 167-116 B.C. 25. The Wilderness as Peace, 167-146 26. Mathematics and Astronomy: The Alternative Immortality 27. Technological Developments: Science as Praxis 28. Hellenistic Medicine; or, The Eye Has Its Limitations 29. Hellenism and the Jews: An Ideological Resistance Movement? 30. Ptolemaic and Seleucid Decadence and the Rise of Parthia, 145-116 PART FIVE. ROME TRIUMPHANT, 116-30 B.C. 31. Mithridates, Sulla, and the Freedom of the Greeks, 116-80 32. Late Hellenistic Art, 150-30: The Mass Market in Nostalgia 33. Foreign and Mystery Cults, Oracles, Astrology, Magic 34. Academics, Skeptics, Peripatetics, Cynics 35. The Garden of Epicurus 36. Stoicism: The Wide and Sheltering Porch 37. Caesar, Pompey, and the Last of the Ptolemies, 80-30 CHRONOLOGY GENEALOGICAL TABLES NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Synopsis
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind. Alexander to Actium was conceived and written to fill that gap. In this monumental work, Peter Green--noted scholar, writer, and critic--breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts. Green offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars., The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind. Alexander to Actium was conceived and written to fill that gap. In this monumental work, Peter Green-noted scholar, writer, and critic-breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts. Green offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars., The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind.Alexander to Actiumwas conceived and written to fill that gap. In this monumental work, Peter Green--noted scholar, writer, and critic--breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts. Green offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars.
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