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| Author | : Francois Chamoux |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 047075205X |
Spanning the period from Alexander the Great's accession to the throne in 336 BC to the defeat by Octavian of Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, this volume provides a vivid account of the innovative civilization of the Hellenistic world.
| Author | : Peter Green |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520203259 |
In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western, Greco-Roman tradition, and Nubians, Bactrians, and other subject peoples of the time are receiving attention in their own right, not just as recipients of Greco-Roman culture. History, like Herakleitos' river, never stands still. These essays share a collective sense of discovery and a sparking of new ideas—they are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.
| Author | : Per Bilde |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The contributors to this volume seek to decipher the Hellenistic citizens' views on vital elements of their society: the city, the ruler, religion, magic and astrology, everyday life and social relations (family and gender), morality, uses of the past, and the iconography of death. How did the changes in political and social ideas affect actions and practices, which in turn again altered concepts? Moreover, the authors distinguish between the views of the common people and the elite, the evidence from inscriptions (seen as popular sentiment) and the evidence from literature (from the elite). The authors' conclusions have broad ramifications for future scholars in a field that has not hitherto received much attention. This volume is essential reading on the early development of individualism and the history of ideas.
| Author | : Lucilla Burn |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Art, Hellenistic |
| ISBN | : 9780892367764 |
In this beautifully illustrated volume, Burn (Keeper of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) introduces the Hellenistic world to students and readers interested in ancient Greek society. After a brief political and cultural overview, Burn identifies several distinctly Hellenistic artistic developments emerging in fourth-century Macedon. She then examines representations of royal and private individuals; the design, furnishing and appearances of cities, sanctuaries, houses and tombs; and the characteristic themes of Hellenistic iconography.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : Greece |
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| Author | : J. B. Bury |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 91 |
| Release | : 2019-03-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 8027303281 |
"The Hellenistic Age" covers all significant aspects of the Hellenistic civilization. Authors' intention was to provide a comprehensive review of the historical period in which Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. The book deals with art, exploration, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, science, and the most important social questions of the period between the conquest of Alexander the Great and the emergence of the Roman Empire. The Hellenistic period covers the period of Mediterranean history between the conquest of Alexander the Great and the emergence of the Roman Empire. At that time, Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. This book covers all the significant aspects of the Hellenistic civilization including the arts, exploration, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy and science Contents: The Hellenistic Age and the History of Civilization Alexandrian Literature Hellenistic Popular Philosophy The Social Question in the Third Century
| Author | : Frank William Walbank |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674387263 |
The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. F. W. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : Greece |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Per Bilde |
| Publisher | : Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Kingship was probably the most important institution in the Hellenistic world. The enormous territories conquered by Alexander the Great were not organised as democratic republics or a Greek type of "tyranny", but as monarchies inspired by the Macedonian kingdom and the Persian Empire. In fact, the idea of kingship was, so to speak, contagious in the Hellenistic era, and the proclamation of a king was the simplest way of establishing sovereignty. This monarchical legacy was eventually taken over by the Roman Empire, from where it was transferred to mediaeval Europe. This volume focuses on the symbolic aspects of the Hellenistic monarchies: what were the values and ideals of these kingdoms? Were they identical, or were there regional differences?
| Author | : Victor Tcherikover |
| Publisher | : Baker Academic |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999-06-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780801047855 |
The encounter between Jews and Greeks marked one of the most revolutionary meetings in the ancient world, for in that encounter politics, economics, culture, and religion changed dramatically. Victor Tcherikover, who devoted his entire scholarly life to the study of the Hellenistic period, offers here a benchmark assessment of that encounter. In this reprinted edition of his most famous work, including a new preface by University of Chicago Professor John J. Collins, Tcherikover uniquely combines "analyses of two of the most intriguing episodes of Jewish history in antiquity: the events that led to the Maccabean rebellion and the struggle for rights in Alexandria in the first century CE" (from the preface).
