The Hellenistic world: new perspectives
by Le Bohec-Bouhet, Sylvie Ogden, Daniel
The history of the hellenistic world has long been more popular than has widely been realized. This volume seeks to contribute to that popularity. Here are fourteen new perspectives on the period from a distinguished and international group of scholars. Their varied papers are grouped together around five themes: Structure and System; King and Court; Family and Kinship; Landscape and People; Art and Image. The book is conceived as a sister-volume to CPW's sucessful Archaic Greece: New Approache…
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- Full title :The Hellenistic world : new perspectives / editor Daniel Ogden ; contributors Sylvie le Bohec-Bouhet [and others].
Summary
The history of the hellenistic world has long been more popular than has widely been realized. This volume seeks to contribute to that popularity. Here are fourteen new perspectives on the period from a distinguished and international group of scholars. Their varied papers are grouped together around five themes: Structure and System; King and Court; Family and Kinship; Landscape and People; Art and Image. The book is conceived as a sister-volume to CPW's sucessful Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence, edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees (1998).
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
Notes
Volume comprises papers delivered at a colloquium July 17-19, 2000, Hay-on-Wye.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxv, 318 pages) : : illustrations, maps.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1905125690, 9781905125692
- oclc:ocn905975891
- LC Classification:DF235
- Dewey Decimal:938.08
Table of Contents
Introduction : from chaos to Cleopatra / Daniel Ogden -- The interpenetration of Hellenistic sovereignties / John Davies -- Eratosthenes' chlamys-shaped world : a misunderstood metaphor / Klaus Zimmermann -- The kings of Macedon and the cult of Zeus in the Hellenistic period / Sylvie le Bohec-Bouhet -- Hunting and the Macedonian elite : sharing the rivalry of the chase / Elizabeth Carney -- The politics of distrust : Alexander and his successors / Waldemar Heckel -- O brother, where art thou? : tales of kinship and diplomacy / Andrew Erskine -- The Egyptian elite in the early Ptolemaic period / Alan B. Lloyd -- Families in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy Thompson -- The king and his land : some remarks on the royal area (basilikē chōra) of Hellenistic Asia Minor / Christian Mileta -- Hidden landscapes : Greek field survey data and Hellenistic history / Graham Shipley -- Steppe and sea : the Hellenistic north in the Black Sea region before the first century BC / David Braund -- Hellenistic mosaics / Ruth Westgate -- How Venus de Milo lost her arms / Shelley Hales -- Celluloid Cleopatras, or, Did the Greeks ever get to Egypt? / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
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