Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic AgeUniversity of California Press, 1990 - 970 pagini The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind. Alexander to Actium was conceived and written to fill that gap. In this monumental work, Peter Green—noted scholar, writer, and critic—breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts. Green offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars. |
Cuprins
PART ONE ALEXANDERS FUNERAL GAMES 323276 B C | 3 |
Action | 36 |
The Division of the Spoils 301276 | 119 |
Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas | 137 |
Apollonius Rhodius and the Voyage | 201 |
Polybius and the New Era | 269 |
Antiochus III Philip V and the Roman Factor | 286 |
Exploration Assimilation | 312 |
Hellenistic Medicine or The Eye Has Its Limitations | 480 |
An Ideological Resistance | 497 |
Ptolemaic and Seleucid Decadence and the Rise | 525 |
Mithridates Sulla and the Freedom of the Greeks | 547 |
The Mass Market | 566 |
Foreign and Mystery Cults Oracles Astrology Magic | 586 |
Academics Skeptics Peripatetics Cynics | 602 |
The Garden of Epicurus | 618 |
Production Trade Finance | 362 |
Slavery Revolution | 382 |
Ruler Cults Traditional Religion and the Ambivalence | 396 |
The Decline and Fall | 414 |
The Wilderness as Peace 167146 | 435 |
The Alternative | 453 |
Science as Praxis | 467 |
The Wide and Sheltering Porch | 631 |
Caesar Pompey and the Last of the Ptolemies 8030 | 647 |
NOTES | 741 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 909 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Achaean League Aegean Aetolians Agathocles Alexander Alexander's Alexandria ancient Antigonus Gonatas Antigonus's Antiochus Antiochus III Antiochus's Antipater Antony Apollonius Aratus Arsinoë Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attalus Caesar Callimachus campaign Cassander century B.C. chap Charbonneaux cities claim Cleomenes Cleopatra Cleopatra III Coele-Syria Corinth cult culture Cynics Cyprus death defeat Delos Demetr Demetrius Demetrius's Dio Cass Diog dynasty Egypt Egyptian Epicurus Eumenes Fraser Greece Greek Gruen Hellenic Hellenistic History Ibid intellectual Joseph king Laert later least Livy Lysimachus Macc Macedonian Menander Mithr Mithridates passim Paus Peloponnese Perdiccas Pergamon Perseus Philip Physcon Piraeus Plato Plin Plut polis political Pollitt Polyb Polybius Pompey Préaux Ptolemy Ptolemy II Ptolemy's Pyrrhus Rhodes Rhodian Roman Rome Rome's Rostovtzeff royal ruler seems Seleucid Seleucus Sicily SIG³ slaves social Sparta status Stoic Strabo successor Syria Tarn temple tion tradition Translated Documents Tyche victory Walbank καὶ
Pasaje populare
Pagina xi - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
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