The Hellenistic world: new perspectives

by Le Bohec-Bouhet, Sylvie Ogden, Daniel

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'The Hellenistic World' assembles 14 challenging new papers, by a distinguished international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII.

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Full title :The Hellenistic world : new perspectives / editor Daniel Ogden ; contributors Sylvie le Bohec-Bouhet [and others].

Summary

'The Hellenistic World' assembles 14 challenging new papers, by a distinguished international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII.

Edition Statements

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:xxv, 318 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0715631802, 9780715631805
oclc:ocm52900558
LC Classification:DF235
Dewey Decimal:938.08

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.

Subjects

Civilisation ancienne -- Congrès Civilization Civilization, Classical Civilization, Classical -- Congresses Conference papers and proceedings Cultuurgeschiedenis Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-30 v. Chr Grèce -- Congrès. -- Civilisation -- Ju… Greece Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C Greece -- Congresses. -- Civilization -… Griechenland Griekse oudheid Hellenism Hellenism -- Congresses Hellénisme -- Congrès Hellenismus Kongress Kongress -- 2000. -- Hay (Großbritannie… Mediterranean Region -- Congresses. -- …