The Hellenistic world : new perspectives /
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| Imprint: | London : Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2002. |
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| Description: | xxv, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4866145 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: From Chaos to Cleopatra
- Structure and System
- 1.. The interpenetration of hellenistic sovereignties
- 2.. Eratosthenes' chlamys-shaped world: a misunderstood metaphor
- King and Court
- 3.. The kings of Macedon and the cult of Zeus in the hellenistic period
- 4.. Hunting and the Macedonian elite: sharing the rivalry of the chase
- 5.. The politics of distrust: Alexander and his Successors
- Family and Kinship
- 6.. O brother where art thou? Tales of kinship and diplomacy
- 7.. The Egyptian elite in the early Ptolemaic period. Some hieroglyphic evidence
- 8.. Families in early Ptolemaic Egypt
- Landscape and People
- 9.. The king and his land. Some remarks on the royal area (basilike chora) of hellenistic Asia Minor
- 10.. Hidden landscapes: Greek field survey data and hellenistic history
- 11.. Steppe and sea: the hellenistic north in the Black Sea region before the first century BC
- Art and Image
- 12.. Hellenistic mosaics
- 13.. How the Venus de Milo lost her arms
- 14.. Celluloid Cleopatras or Did the Greeks ever get to Egypt?
- Maps
- Index