Images and Ideologies
Subtitle: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Contributors: Anthony W. Bulloch (Editor); Erich S. Gruen (Editor); A. A. Long (Editor); Andrew Stewart (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 24, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780520075269
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Mediterranean Region; Congresses; Ancient Greece - History; Self-perception; Psychology; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Sociology; Ancient Greece; General; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / General; Civilization; Greece; Hellenism; History
First sentence: Ptolemaic kingship has a Janus-like character, as can be seen in a pair of gold seals (see figs. 1a and b).