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Creating a Hellenistic world

Title
Creating a Hellenistic world / editors, Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ; contributors, Elizabeth Carney ... [et al.].
Publication
Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co., [U.S. distributor], c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Erskine, Andrew.
  • Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd.
  • Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly, 1947-
Description
xx, 355 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
  • Hellenism
  • Mediterranean Region > History > To 476
  • Greece > History > Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. The first Hellenistic man / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones / Andrew Erskine -- 2. The koine: A new language for a new world / Robin Lane Fox -- 3. The letter of Aristeas / Stephen Colvin -- 4. The Silver Shields, Eumenes, and their historian / Richard Hunter -- 5. From satrapy to Hellenistic kingdom: the case of Egypt / Joseph Roisman -- 6. Frataraka rule in Seleucid Persis: a new appraisal / Alan B. Lloyd -- 7. Early Hellenistic Rhodes: the struggle for independence and the dream of hegemony / Josef Wiesehöfer -- 8. The significance of Plataia for Greek eleutheria in the early Hellenistic period / Hans-Ulrich Wiemer -- 9. Between philosophy and the court: the life of Persaios of Kition / Shane Wallace -- 10. Being royal and female in the early Hellenistic period / Andrew Erskine -- 11. How to marry a courtesan in the Macedonian courts / Elizabeth D. Carney -- 12. A key to Berenike's Lock? The Hathoric model of queenship in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Daniel Ogden -- 13. Against λepsilonπτomicronτetafinalsigma: rethinking Hellenistic aesthetics / Stephanie Winder / Lloyd Llewellyn Jones -- 14. Style, continuity and the Hellenistic baroque / James I. Porter.
Call Number
JFE 11-3045
ISBN
  • 9781905125432 (hbk.)
  • 1905125437 (hbk.)
OCLC
601004034
Title
Creating a Hellenistic world / editors, Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ; contributors, Elizabeth Carney ... [et al.].
Imprint
Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co., [U.S. distributor], c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Erskine, Andrew.
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd.
Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly, 1947-
Research Call Number
JFE 11-3045
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