Table Of Contents:

List of Figures x

List of Contributors xii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
Ancient Authors: Abbreviations and Glossary xix
Reference Works: Abbreviations xxiv

Approaching the Hellenistic World 1(16)

Andrew Erskine

Part I Narratives 17(86)

After Alexander: the Emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323--281 19(16)

David Braund

An Uneasy Balance: from the Death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia 35(16)

Sheila L. Ager

The Arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the Fall of Macedon 51(20)

Peter Derow

Subjection and Resistance: to the Death of Mithradates 71(19)

Brian McGing

A Roman East: Pompey's Settlement to the Death of Augustus 90(13)

Claude Eilers

Part II Protagonists 103(72)

The Ptolemies and Egypt 105(16)

Dorothy J. Thompson

The Seleukids and Asia 121(13)

Michel Austin

Macedon and the Mainland, 280-221 134(25)

Joseph B. Scholten

The Attalids of Pergamon 159(16)

Elizabeth Kosmetatou

Part III Change and Continuity 175(72)

Kings 177(19)

John Ma

Cities 196(20)

Richard Billows

The Past in a Hellenistic Present: Myth and Local Tradition 216(16)

Tanja S. Scheer

Space and Geography 232(15)

Klaus Geus

Part IV Greeks and Others 247(64)

Town and Country in Ptolemaic Egypt 249(15)

Jane Rowlandson

Jews and Greeks 264(16)

Erich S. Gruen

The Galatians: Representation and Reality 280(14)

Stephen Mitchell

Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic Age 294(17)

Emma Dench

Part V Society and Economy 311(94)

Family Structures 313(18)

Riet van Bremen

The Economy 331(23)

Gary Reger

Reading the Landscape: Survey Archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene 354(19)

Susan E. Alcock

Jennifer E. Gates

Jane E. Rempel

Warfare 373(16)

Patrick Baker

Piracy and the Slave-Trade 389(16)

Vincent Gabrielsen

Part VI Gods and Men 405(42)

Hellenistic Religion 407(24)

David Potter

The Divinity of Hellenistic Rulers 431(16)

Angelos Chaniotis

Part VII Arts and Sciences 447(68)

Empires of Knowledge: Medicine and Health in the Hellenistic World 449(15)

Rebecca Flemming

The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy 464(13)

Phillip Mitsis

Literature and its Contexts 477(17)

Richard Hunter

Hellenistic Art, AD 1500--2000 494(21)

Andrew Stewart
Bibliography 515(52)
Chronology 567(7)
Index 574