Table Of ContentA COMPANION
TO THE
HELLENISTIC
WORLD
Edited by
Andrew Erskine
‘This extremely appealing collection pulls off that hardest of tricks: it is simultan-
eouslyauthoritativeandexciting,itsfindingsnewaswellastrue.TheHellenisticage
was an age of marvels and this impeccably edited work is itself a Hellenistic marvel.
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goaway nourished,as I did.’
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HELLENISTIC
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Edited by
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Contents
List of Figures x
List of Contributors xii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
Ancient Authors:AbbreviationsandGlossary xix
ReferenceWorks:Abbreviations xxiv
1 Approaching the Hellenistic World 1
AndrewErskine
PART I NARRATIVES 17
2 After Alexander:the Emergenceof the Hellenistic World,
323–281 19
David Braund
3 An UneasyBalance: from the Death of Seleukostothe
Battleof Raphia 35
Sheila L. Ager
4 The Arrivalof Rome: fromthe IllyrianWarstothe
Fall of Macedon 51
Peter Derow
5 Subjection andResistance: tothe Death of Mithradates 71
Brian McGing
6 A Roman East:Pompey’sSettlementtothe Deathof Augustus 90
Claude Eilers
viii Contents
PART II PROTAGONISTS 103
7 ThePtolemies and Egypt 105
DorothyJ. Thompson
8 TheSeleukids and Asia 121
Michel Austin
9 Macedon and the Mainland, 280–221 134
Joseph B. Scholten
10 TheAttalidsof Pergamon 159
Elizabeth Kosmetatou
PART III CHANGE AND CONTINUITY 175
11 Kings 177
JohnMa
12 Cities 196
RichardBillows
13 ThePast in a HellenisticPresent:Myth and
LocalTradition 216
TanjaS. Scheer
14 Spaceand Geography 232
Klaus Geus
PART IV GREEKS AND OTHERS 247
15 Town and Country inPtolemaic Egypt 249
Jane Rowlandson
16 Jews andGreeks 264
ErichS. Gruen
17 TheGalatians: Representation and Reality 280
Stephen Mitchell
18 Beyond Greeks andBarbarians:Italyand Sicilyinthe
HellenisticAge 294
Emma Dench
PART V SOCIETYAND ECONOMY 311
19 Family Structures 313
Rietvan Bremen
20 TheEconomy 331
GaryReger
