Creating a Hellenistic world
By: editors, Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ; contributors, Elizabeth Carney ... [et al.].
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales; David Brown Book Co. [distributor]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Swansea; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781905125432
Subjects: Hellenism; History
Description: The essays presented here offer an exciting interdisciplinary approach to the study of an emerging Hellenistic world, its newness but also its oldness, both real and imagined.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first Hellenistic man  -- Robin Lane Fox; title: The koine : a new language for a new world  -- Stephen Colvin; title: The letter of Aristeas  -- Richard Hunter; title: The Silver Shields, Eumenes, and their historian  -- Joseph Roisman; title: From satrapy to Hellenistic kingdom : the case of Egypt  -- Alan B. Lloyd; title: Frataraka rule in Seleucid Persis : a new appraisal  -- Josef Wiesehöfer; title: Early Hellenistic Rhodes : the struggle for independence and the dream of hegemony  -- Hans-Ulrich Wiemer; title: The significance of Plataia for Greek eleutheria in the early Hellenistic period  -- Shane Wallace; title: Between philosophy and the court : the life of Persaios of Kition  -- Andrew Erskine; title: Being royal and female in the early Hellenistic period  -- Elizabeth D. Carney; title: How to marry a courtesan in the Macedonian courts  -- Daniel Ogden; title: A key to Berenike's Lock? The Hathoric model of queenship in early Ptolemaic Egypt  -- Lloyd Llewellyn Jones and Stephanie Winder; title: Against &lambda;&epsilon;&pi;&tau;&omicron;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; : rethinking Hellenistic aesthetics  -- James I. Porter; title: Style, continuity and the Hellenistic baroque -- Peter Schultz.