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Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

1. Approaching the Hellenistic world / Andrew Erskine

Part I: Narratives

2. After Alexander: the emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323-281 / David Braund

3. An uneasy balance: from the death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia / Sheila L. Ager

4. The arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the fall of Macedon / Peter Derow

5. Subjection and resistance: to the death of Mithradates / Brian McGing

6. A Roman east: Pompey's settlement to the death of Augustus / Claude Eilers

Part II: Protagonists

7. The Ptolemies and Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson

8. The Seleukids and Asia / Michel Austin

9. Macedon and the mainland, 280-221 / Joseph B. Scholten

10. The attalids of Pergamon / Elizabeth Kosmetatou

Part III: Change and continuity

11. Kings / John Ma

12. Cities / Richard Billows

13. The past in a Hellenistic present: myth and local tradition / Tanja S. Scheer

14. Space and geography / Klaus Geus

Part IV: Greeks and others

15. Town and country in Ptolemaic Egypt / Jane Rowlandson

16. Jews and Greeks / Erich S. Gruen

17. The Galatians: representation and reality / Stephen Mitchell

18. Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic age / Emma Dench

Part V: Society and economy

19. Family structures / Riet van Bremen

20. The economy / Gary Reger

21. Reading the landscape: survey archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene / Susan E. Alcock, Jennifer E. Gates, Jane E. Rempel

22. Warfare / Patrick Baker

23. Piracy and the slave-trade / Vincent Gabrielsen

Part VI: Gods and men

24. Hellenistic religion / David Potter

25. The divinity of Hellenistic rulers / Angelos Chaniotis

Part VII: Arts and sciences

26. Empires of knowledge: medicine and health in the Hellenistic world / Rebecca Flemming

27. The institutions of Hellenistic philosophy / Phillip Mitsis

28. Literature and its contexts / Richard Hunter

29. Hellenistic art, AD 1500-2000 / Andrew Stewart.

Mediterranean Region > History > To 476.

Greece > History > Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.

Greece > History > 281-146 B.C.