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Creating a Hellenistic world
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- Summary
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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.
Details
- Creator
- editors, Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ; contributors, Elizabeth Carney [and fourteen others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Swansea, [Wales] : The Classical Press of Wales, 2011
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- ISBNs
- 9781910589243, 1910589241, 1905125437
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The first Hellenistic man / Robin Lane Fox -- The koine : a new language for a new world / Stephen Colvin -- The letter of Aristeas / Richard Hunter -- The Silver Shields, Eumenes, and their historian / Joseph Roisman -- From satrapy to Hellenistic kingdom : the case of Egypt / Alan B. Lloyd -- Frataraka rule in Seleucid Persis : a new appraisal / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Early Hellenistic Rhodes : the struggle for independence and the dream of hegemony / Hans-Ulrich Wiemer -- The significance of Plataia for Greek eleutheria in the early Hellenistic period / Shane Wallace -- Between philosophy and the court : the life of Persaios of Kition / Andrew Erskine -- Being royal and female in the early Hellenistic period / Elizabeth D. Carney -- How to marry a courtesan in the Macedonian courts / Daniel Ogden -- A key to Berenike's Lock? The Hathoric model of queenship in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Lloyd Llewellyn Jones and Stephanie Winder -- Against λεπτοτης : rethinking Hellenistic aesthetics / James I. Porter -- Style, continuity and the Hellenistic baroque / Peter Schultz