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Hellenistic constructs : essays in culture, history, and historiography / edited by Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey, and Erich Gruen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Hellenistic culture and society ; 26.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 319 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520918337
  • 0520918339
  • 058516021X
  • 9780585160214
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hellenistic constructs.DDC classification:
  • 938 21
LOC classification:
  • DF77 .H5463 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Heroic Past in a Hellenistic Present / Susan E. Alcock -- "These fragments have I shored against my ruins": Apollonios Rhodios and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age / Peter Green -- Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context / Erich S. Gruen -- Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective: The Book of Daniel / Fergus Millar -- The Hellenistic World and Roman Political Patronage / Jean-Louis Ferrary -- Athens between Rome and the Kings: 229/8 to 129 B.C. / H. Mattingly -- Poseidonios and Athenion: A Study in Hellenistic Historiography / Klaus Bringmann -- The Middle Stoics and Slavery / Peter Garnsey -- Physis and Nomos: Polybius, the Romans, and Cato the Elder / A.M. Eckstein -- The Court Society of the Hellenistic Age / Gabriel Herman -- Decolonizing Ptolemaic Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- The Infrastructure of Splendour: Census and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson.
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"Publications of F.W. Walbank": pages 259-279.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index.

Print version record.

The Heroic Past in a Hellenistic Present / Susan E. Alcock -- "These fragments have I shored against my ruins": Apollonios Rhodios and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age / Peter Green -- Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context / Erich S. Gruen -- Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective: The Book of Daniel / Fergus Millar -- The Hellenistic World and Roman Political Patronage / Jean-Louis Ferrary -- Athens between Rome and the Kings: 229/8 to 129 B.C. / H. Mattingly -- Poseidonios and Athenion: A Study in Hellenistic Historiography / Klaus Bringmann -- The Middle Stoics and Slavery / Peter Garnsey -- Physis and Nomos: Polybius, the Romans, and Cato the Elder / A.M. Eckstein -- The Court Society of the Hellenistic Age / Gabriel Herman -- Decolonizing Ptolemaic Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- The Infrastructure of Splendour: Census and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson.

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