Alexander to Actium : the historical evolution of the Hellenistic age
A meticulous analysis of Hellenistic culture spanning three centuries, from the death of Alexander the Great in 325 B.C. Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development in this colorful, complex period that will fascinate all readers. 217 illustrations, 30 maps
Print Book, English, 1993, ©1990
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993, ©1990
History
xxiv, 970 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
9780520056114, 9780520083493, 0520056116, 0520083490
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pt. 1. Alexander's funeral games, 323-276 B.C. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316
Antigonus one-eye's bid for empire, 316-301
Demetrius of Phaleron : the philosopher-king in action
Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and political disenchantment
Theophrastus, Menander, and the transformation of attic comedy
The politics of royal patronage : early Ptolemaic Alexandria
Early Hellenistic art and its antecedents, 380-270 : space, pathos, realism ; or, the horse as critic
The division of the spoils, 301-276
pt. 2. The Zenith century, 276-222 B.C. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239
The new urban culture : Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon
The critic as poet : Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron
Kingship and bureaucracy : the government of the successor kingdoms
Armchair epic : Apollonius Rhodius and the voyage of Argo
Events in the West : Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome
Urbanized pastoralism, or vice versa : the Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas
The road to Sellasia, 239-222. pt. 3. Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. Polybius and the new era
Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman factor, 221-196
The spread of Hellenism : exploration, assimilation, colonialism ; or, the dog that barked in the night
Middle-period Hellenistic art, 270-150 : Si monumentum requiris ..
Production, trade, finance
The individual and society : slavery, revolution, utopias
Ruler cults, traditional religion, and the ambivalence of Tyche
From Cynoscephalae to Pydna : the decline and fall of Macedonia, 196-168
pt. 4. The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. The wilderness as peace, 167-146
Mathematics and astronomy : the alternative immortality
Technological developments : science as Praxis
Hellenistic medicine; or, the eye has its limitations
Hellenism and the Jews : an ideological resistance movement?
Ptolemaic and Seleucid decadence and the rise of Parthia, 145-116. pt. 5. Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. Mithridates, Sulla, and the freedom of the Greeks, 116-80
Late Hellenistic art, 150-30 : the mass market in nostalgia
Foreign and mystery cults, oracles, astrology, magic
Academics, skeptics, peripatetics, cynics
The garden of Epicurus
Stoicism : the wide and sheltering porch
Caesar, Pompey, and the last of the Ptolemies, 80-30
"A Centennial book"--Page before ser. title page
"Second printing with corrections, 1993"--Title page verso