Hellenistic Constructs by Paul Cartledge
Features twelve essays that emphasize the cultural interaction of Greek and non-Greek societies in the Hellenistic period, in contrast to more conventional focuses on politics, society, or economy. This volume is dedicated to Frank Walbank and includes a bibliography of his work.-
Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions
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The Vanished Library
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Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome
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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind
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Thundering Zeus
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Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State
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The Best of the Argonauts
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Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
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Faces of Power
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The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India
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The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature
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Creating a Common Polity
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Stoic Studies
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The Making of Fornication
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From Alexander to Jesus
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The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor
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The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa
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Seeing Double
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Asylia
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Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337–90 B.C.
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Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy
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Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories
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From Pergamon to Sperlonga
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The Politics of Plunder
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Josephus's Interpretation of the Bible
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Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius
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Religion in Hellenistic Athens
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Tales of High Priests and Taxes
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The Question of Eclecticism
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Hellenistic History and Culture
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The Cynics
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Pseudo Hecataeus, On the Jews
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Theocritus's Urban Mimes
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Poetic Garlands
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Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers
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Athens and Macedon
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Polyeideia
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Hellenistic Egypt
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Into the Land of Bones
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A History of Macedonia
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The Beginnings of Jewishness
Paul Cartledge is Reader in Greek History, University of Cambridge. He is the coauthor, with A.J.S. Spawforth, of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities (1989) and The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (revised edition, 1997). Peter Garnsey is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge. His works include Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis (1988) and Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (1996). Erich Gruen is Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (California, 1984), and Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (California).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520206762 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520206762 |
| Title | Hellenistic Constructs |
| Author | Paul Cartledge |
| Series | Hellenistic Culture And Society |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1997-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 315 |
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