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Alexander to Actium : the Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age.
The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B.C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Hellenistic culture and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; ALEXANDER TO ACTIUM; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART ONE. ALEXANDER'S FUNERAL GAMES, 323-276 B.C.; 1. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316 ; 2. Antigonus One-Eye's Bid for Empire, 316-301 ; 3. Demetrius of Phaleron: The Philosopher-King in Action ; 4. Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and Political Disenchantment ; 5. Theophrastus, Menander, and the Transformation of Attic Comedy ; 6. The Politics of Royal Patronage: Early Ptolemaic Alexandria ; 7. Early Hellenistic Art and Its Antecedents, 380-270: Space, Pathos, Realism.
- Or, The Horse as Critic 8. The Division of the Spoils, 301-276 ; PART TWO. THE ZENITH CENTURY, 276-222 B.C. ; 9. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239 ; 10. The New Urban Culture: Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon; 11. The Critic as Poet: Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron; 12. Kingship and Bureaucracy: The Government of the Successor Kingdoms; 13. Armchair Epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the Voyage of Argo; 14. Events in the West: Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome; 15. Urbanized Pastoralism, or vice versa: The Idylls of Theocritus, the, Mimes of Herodas.
- 16. The Road to Sellasia, 239-222 PART THREE. PHALANX AND LEGION, 221-168 B.C. ; 17. Polybius and the New Era; 18. Antiochus Ill, Philip V, and the Roman Factor, 221-196 ; 19. The Spread of Hellenism: Exploration, Assimilation, Colonialism; or, The Dog That Barked in the Night; 20. Middle-Period Hellenistic Art, 270-150: Si monumentum requiris. . . ; 21. Production, Trade, Finance; 22. The Individual and Society: Slavery, Revolution, Utopias; 23. Ruler Cults, Traditional Religion, and the Ambivalence of Tyche ; 24. From Cynoscephalae to Pydna: The Decline and Fall of Macedonia, 196-168.
- PART FOUR. THE BREAKING OF NATIONS, 167-116 B.C. 25. The Wilderness as Peace, 167-146 ; 26. Mathematics and Astronomy: The Alternative Immortality; 27. Technological Developments: Science as Praxis; 28. Hellenistic Medicine; or, The Eye Has Its Limitations; 29. Hellenism and the Jews: An Ideological Resistance Movement?; 30. Ptolemaic and Seleucid Decadence and the Rise of Parthia, 145-116 ; PART FIVE. ROME TRIUMPHANT, 116-30 B.C. ; 31. Mithridates, Sulla, and the Freedom of the Greeks, 116-80 ; 32. Late Hellenistic Art, 150-30: The Mass Market in Nostalgia.
- 33. Foreign and Mystery Cults, Oracles, Astrology, Magic34. Academics, Skeptics, Peripatetics, Cynics; 35. The Garden of Epicurus; 36. Stoicism: The Wide and Sheltering Porch; 37. Caesar, Pompey, and the Last of the Ptolemies, 80-30 ; CHRONOLOGY; GENEALOGICAL TABLES; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.