The Hellenistic world: new perspectives/

Corporate Author: Classical Press of Wales
Other Authors: Le Bohec-Bouhet, Sylvie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London: Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2002
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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 (basilike chora) 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