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

The Cynics

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 23
• This collection of essays--the first of its kind in English--brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradi... Lees meer

Creating a Common Polity

Emily Mackil

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 55
• In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Gree... Lees meer

Pseudo Hecataeus, on the Jews

Bezalel Bar-Kochva

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 21
• Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his fine... 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

Hellenistic History and Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 9
• In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the ... Lees meer

Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337-90 B.C.

Sheila L Ager

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 18
• A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and me... 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

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

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

Athens and Macedon

Stephen V Tracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 38
• Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know--or might know--about the period has come down to us in inscri... 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

Asylia

Kent J Rigsby

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 22
• In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious... 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

Poetic Garlands

Kathryn J Gutzwiller

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 28
• Epigrams, the briefest of Greek poetic forms, had a strong appeal for readers of the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.). One of the most characteristic ... 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

The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India

Getzel M Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 54
• This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen's important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the ... Lees meer

The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor

Getzel M Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Hellenistic Culture and Society | nr. 17
• This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The... 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

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

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