Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 50
• This volume gathers sixteen essays on monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period and charts a new approach to Hellenistic history by focusing attent... Lees meer

Thundering Zeus

Frank L Holt

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 32
• Thundering Zeus uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explore... Lees meer

The Politics of Plunder

Joseph B Scholten

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 24
• Between 279 and 229 B.C., the Aitolian koinon, a federation of mountain cantons in west central Greece, expanded to incorporate many of the neighborin... Lees meer

The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature

Bezalel Bar-Kochva

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 51
• This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic pe... Lees meer

Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora

John M G Barclay

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 33
• Most studies of Jews in the period from Alexander to Trajan have concentrated almost exclusively on Jerusalem and Judea. In this book, John Barclay as... Lees meer

Stoic Studies

A A Long

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 36
• For the past three decades A. A. Long has been at the forefront of research in Hellenistic philosophy. In this book he assembles a dozen articles on S... Lees meer

The Making of Fornication

Kathy L Gaca

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 40
• This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western... Lees meer

Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions

Frank L Holt

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 44
• To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted... Lees meer

Into the Land of Bones

Frank L Holt

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 47
• The so-called first war of the twenty-first century actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a ... Lees meer

Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome

Arthur M Eckstein

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 48
• This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the br... Lees meer

The Question of Eclecticism

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy

Cleomedes

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 42
• At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete in... Lees meer

Into the Land of Bones

Frank L Holt

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 47
• What George W. Bush called the "first war of the twenty-first century" actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army ... Lees meer

The Best of the Argonauts

James J Clauss

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society
• This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Cl... Lees meer

Polyeideia

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 35
• This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Call... Lees meer

The Argonautika

Apollonios Rhodios

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 25
• The Argonautika, the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era, is a retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, probably the oldest extant... Lees meer

The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa

Getzel M Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 46
• This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen's organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the ... Lees meer

The Beginnings of Jewishness

Shaye J D Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 31
• In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These ... Lees meer

The Best of the Argonauts

James J Clauss

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society
• This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Cl... Lees meer

Josephus's Interpretation of the Bible

Louis H Feldman

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 27
• Josephus (A.D. 37-?100), a pro-Roman Jew closely associated with the emperor Titus, is the earliest systematic commentator on the Bible, as well as on... Lees meer

Seeing Double

Susan A Stephens

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 37
• When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs ... Lees meer

Hellenistic Constructs

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 26
• The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascinat... Lees meer

Tales of High Priests and Taxes

Sylvie Honigman

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 56
• In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible--the ancient Near East--came under Greek rule, and in the land of ... Lees meer

The Question of Eclecticism

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer