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Age of conquests : the Greek world from Alexander to Hadrian /

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once again by his death in 323 BCE. Over time, trade and intellectual achievement resumed, but Cleopatra's death in 30 BCE brought this Hellenistic moment to a close--or so the story goes. Angelos Chaniotis reveals a Hellenistic wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chaniotis, Angelos (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Edición:First Harvard University Press edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. How It All Began: From Macedonia to the Oecumene (356-323 bc)
  • 2. The Successors: Adventurers and Architects of Kingdoms (323-275 bc)
  • 3. 'Old' Greece in the Short Third Century: Struggles for Survival, Freedom and Hegemony (279-217 bc)
  • 4. The Ptolemaic Golden Age (283-217 bc)
  • 5. Kings and Kingdoms
  • 6. The City-state in a World of Federations and Empires
  • 7. Entanglement: The Coming of Rome (221-188 bc)
  • 8. The Greek States Become Roman Provinces (188-129 bc)
  • 9. Decline and Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms in Asia and Egypt (188-80 bc)
  • 10. A Battlefield of Foreign Ambitions (88-30 bc)
  • 11. A Roman East: Local Histories and Their Global Context (30 bc-ad 138)
  • 12. Emperors, Cities and Provinces from Augustus to Hadrian (30 bc-ad 138)
  • 13. Socio-economic Conditions: From Greek Cities to an 'Ecumenical' Network
  • 14. Social and Cultural Trends: Benefactors, Confrères, Ephebes, Athletes, Women and Slaves
  • 15. From Civic Worship to Megatheism: Religions in a Cosmopolitan World
  • 16. The Greeks and the Oecumene
  • References and Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Chronology
  • Index