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The Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to THE HELLENISTIC WORLD S This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world – religion, philosophy, family, economy, material culture, and military campaigns, among other topics. The essays address key questions about this period: To what extent were Alexander’s conquests responsible for the creation of this new “Hellenistic age”? What is the essence of this world and how does it differ from its Classical predecessor? What continuities and discontinuities can be identified? Collectively, the essays provide an in-depth view of a complex world. The volume also provides the most recent bibliography on the topics along with recommendations for further reading. Glenn R. Bugh is associate professor of ancient and Byzantine history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. A recipient of fellowships from the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. NJ, he recently served as Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies. He is the author of The Horsemen of Athens. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to THE HELLENISTIC WORLD S Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao˜ Paulo Cambridge University Press 40 West 20th Street, New York, ny 10011-4211, usa www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521828796 c Cambridge University Press 2006 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2006 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The Cambridge companion to the Hellenistic world / edited by Glenn R. Bugh. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-521-82879-6 (hardback) isbn-10: 0-521-82879-1 (hardback) 1. Mediterranean Region – History – To 476. 2. Greece – History – Macedonian Hegemony, 323–281 b.c. 3. Greece – History – 281–146 b.c. 4. Hellenism. I. Bugh, Glenn Richard, 1948– II. Title. de86.c35 2006 938.08 –dc22 2005028730 isbn-13 978-0-521-82879-6 hardback isbn-10 0-521-82879-1 hardback isbn-13 978-0-521-53570-0 paperback isbn-10 0-521-53570-0 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information Contents S List of Illustrations page vii List of Contributors ix Preface xiii Abbreviations xv Hellenistic Timeline xix Hellenistic Maps xxiii Introduction 1 GLENN R. BUGH 1 Alexander the Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic Age 9 A. B. BOSWORTH 2 The Hellenistic Kingdoms 28 WINTHROP LINDSAY ADAMS 3 The Polis and Federalism 52 D. GRAHAM J. SHIPLEY WITH MOGENS H. HANSEN 4 Hellenistic Economies 73 JOHN K. DAVIES 5 The Hellenistic Family 93 DOROTHY J. THOMPSON 6 History and Rhetoric 113 GRAHAM J. OLIVER 7 Material Culture 136 SUSAN I. ROTROFF 8 Hellenistic Art: Two Dozen Innovations 158 ANDREW STEWART v © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information Contents 9 Language and Literature 186 NITA KREVANS AND ALEXANDER SENS 10 Greek Religion: Continuity and Change in the Hellenistic Period 208 JON D. MIKALSON 11 Philosophy for Life 223 ROBERT W. SHARPLES 12 Science, Medicine, and Technology 241 PAUL T. KEYSER AND GEORGIA IRBY-MASSIE 13 Hellenistic Military Developments 265 GLENN R. BUGH 14 Greeks and Non-Greeks 295 ERICH S. GRUEN 15 Recent Trends and New Directions 315 D. GRAHAM J. SHIPLEY Hellenistic Dynasties 327 Works Cited 331 Index 361 vi © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information Illustrations S 1 Histogram of numbers of recorded Mediterranean wrecks, by century. 2 A long-petal bowl from the workshop of Apollodoros, found in the foundation trench of the Athenian Metroon. 3 Amphoras from Rhodes, Knidos, Chios, and Italy, destroyed in the Sullan sack of Athens in 86 b.c. 4 Stamp on a Rhodian handle, with the head of Helios and the name of the eponym, Sostratos. 5 Stamp on the other handle of the same amphora, giving the fabricant, Agoranax, and the month, Artamitios. 6 A Hellenistic drinking assemblage with a large cup and a small krater decorated in West Slope technique, and a small oinochoe. 7 Three lagynoi found in Athens. 8 Drinking cup of Achaemenid shape, Sardis, third century. 9 Second-century moldmade bowl made at Sardis. 10 The tomb of Iasion-Aetion?¨ Pseudo-Mycenaean doorway in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace. 11 Terracotta figurine from Tanagra: draped woman wearing a sun hat and holding a fan. 12 Alexander the Great with diadem and Ammon’s horns. Tetradrachm minted by King Lysimachos of Thrace, 297–281 b.c. 13 Plan of Alexandria in the Hellenistic period. 14 Reconstruction of the Establishment of the Poseidoniasts of Berytos (Beirut) at Delos, ca. 100 b.c. vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information Illustrations 15 The Khazneh at Petra. A royal tomb, either of King Aretas III Philhellen (reigned, ca. 85–62 b.c.) or of King Aretas IV Philopatris (reigned 9 b.c.–a.d. 40). 16 The “Lion Goddess” from the Gigantomachy frieze of the Great Altar at Pergamon, ca. 160 b.c. 17 Comic mask of a young dandy wearing a fantastic party hat and surrounded by garlands of fruits and flowers, ca. 200–100 b.c. 18 Portrait head from Delos, ca. 100 b.c. A merchant or other notable, originally inserted into a (draped?) body. 19 Two panels of the Odyssey frieze from a cryptoporticus on the Esquiline Hill, Rome, Vatican Museums. 20 Diadem from Thessaly, ca. 200–100 b.c. 21 The “Tazza Farnese,” ca. 100–25 b.c. Allegory of the prosperity of Egypt under Ptolemaic or (possibly) early Roman rule. 22 Diagram of Erastosthenes of Cyrene’s measurement of the circumference of the earth. 23 Diagram of the sambuca, a Hellenistic siege machine made famous at the Roman siege of Syracuse, 213–211 b.c. 24 Diagram of Erastosthenes of Cyrene’s duplication of the cube. 25 The three-talent stone projector of Demetrios Poliorketes. viii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information Contributors S WINTHROP LINDSAY ADAMS is Professor of History at the University of Utah. His publications include “The Successors to Alexander,” in The Greek World in the Fourth Century, edited by L. A. Tritle (Routledge, 1997), and Alexander the Great: Legacy of a Conqueror in the Library of World Biography series, edited by P. N. Stearns (New York, 2004), as well as a number of articles on ancient Macedonia. A. B. BOSWORTH is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. Among his many publications are The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda under the Succes- sors (Oxford, 2002); Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (Cambridge, 1988); A Historical Commentary on Arrian’s History of Alexander, 2 vols (Oxford, 1980, 1995); and Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph (Oxford, 1996; hardback reprint, 2001). GLENN R. BUGH is Associate Professor of Ancient History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His publications include The Horsemen of Athens (Princeton, 1988) and articles on Athens in the Hellenistic period, Polybios in the Alexiad of the Byzantine princess Anna Comnena, and the Greek mercenary cavalry in early sixteenth- century Venice. He has given papers at international conferences on the survival of democratic institutions in Hellenistic Athens, Menander and mercenaries, and the use of lasers in the study of inscriptions. He is under contract with Cambridge University Press for a book on fourth- century b.c. Athens. JOHN K. DAVIES, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books, including the Athenian Propertied Families (Oxford, 1971, 2nd edn. in preparation), Democracy and Classical Greece (Stanford, 1978, 2nd edn., 1993), and Cambridge Ancient History, ix © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521828791 - The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Glenn R. Bugh Frontmatter More information Contributors 2nd edn., VII.1, chapt.
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