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Book SynopsisThe Hellenistic World assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from settlement patterns, non-Greek populations and marginal peoples, the personnel, rivalries and religious ideologies of the royal courts, and on to the wider question of the political structure of the Hellenistic world. Considerable attention is paid to the revolutionary art of the period and to the reception of its culture in more recent times, including images of Cleopatra on film.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: From Chaos to Cleopatra -
Daniel Ogden Structure and System 1. The Interpretation of Hellenistic Sovereignties -
John Davies 2. Eratosthenes' Chlamys-Shaped World: A Misunderstood Metaphor -
Klaus Zimmermann King and Court 3. The Kings of Macedon and the Cult of Zeus in the Hellenistic Period -
Sylvie le Bohec-Bouhet Translated by the Editor 4. Hunting and the Macedonian Elite: Sharing the Rivalry of the Chase -
Elizabeth Carney 5. The Politics of Distrust: Alexander and His Successors -
Waldemar Heckel Family and Kinship 6. O Brother Where Art Thou? Tales of Kinship and Diplomacy -
Andrew Erskine 7. The Egyptian Elite in the Early Ptolemaic Period: Some Hieroglyphic Evidence - Alan B. Lloyd 8. Families in Early Ptolemaic Egypt -
Dorothy Thompson Landscape and People 9. The King and His Land: Some Remarks on the Royal Area (Basilike Chora) of Hellenistic Asia Minor -
Christian Mileta 10. Hidden Landscapes: Greek Field Survey Data and Hellenistic History -
Graham Shipley 11. Steppe and Sea: The Hellenistic North in the Black Sea Region Before the First Century BC -
David Braund Art and Image 12. Hellenistic Mosaics -
Ruth Westgate 13. How the Venus de Milo Lost Her Arms -
Shelley Hales 14. Celluloid Cleopatras or Did the Greeks Ever Get to Egypt? -
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Maps Index
