Polygamy, prostitutes and death
Subtitle: the Hellenistic dynasties
By: Daniel Ogden.
Publisher: Duckworth with the Classical Press of Wales
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Polygamy -- Greece -- History.; Prostitution -- Greece -- History.; Hellenism.; Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. POLYGAMY AND DEATH IN THE MACEDONIAN AND; title: HELLENISTIC COURTS; title: 1. Argead Macedon 3; title: 2. Alexander 41; title: 3. Cassander and Lysimachus 53; title: 4. The Ptolemies 67; title: 5. The Seleucids 117; title: 6. The Antigonids 171; title: 7. The Attalids 199; title: Part II. HELLENISTIC ROYAL COURTESANS; title: 8. Methodology and evidence 215; title: 9. Status and career 231; title: 10. Courtesans at work 259.