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A companion to the Hellenistic world

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1. Approaching the Hellenistic world / Andrew Erskine
Part I: Narratives
2. After Alexander: the emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323-281 / David Braund
3. An uneasy balance: from the death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia / Sheila L. Ager
4. The arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the fall of Macedon / Peter Derow
5. Subjection and resistance: to the death of Mithradates / Brian McGing
6. A Roman east: Pompey's settlement to the death of Augustus / Claude Eilers
Part II: Protagonists
7. The Ptolemies and Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson
8. The Seleukids and Asia / Michel Austin
9. Macedon and the mainland, 280-221 / Joseph B. Scholten
10. The attalids of Pergamon / Elizabeth Kosmetatou
Part III: Change and continuity
11. Kings / John Ma
12. Cities / Richard Billows
13. The past in a Hellenistic present: myth and local tradition / Tanja S. Scheer
14. Space and geography / Klaus Geus
Part IV: Greeks and others
15. Town and country in Ptolemaic Egypt / Jane Rowlandson
16. Jews and Greeks / Erich S. Gruen
17. The Galatians: representation and reality / Stephen Mitchell
18. Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic age / Emma Dench
Part V: Society and economy
19. Family structures / Riet van Bremen
20. The economy / Gary Reger
21. Reading the landscape: survey archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene / Susan E. Alcock, Jennifer E. Gates, Jane E. Rempel
22. Warfare / Patrick Baker
23. Piracy and the slave-trade / Vincent Gabrielsen
Part VI: Gods and men
24. Hellenistic religion / David Potter
25. The divinity of Hellenistic rulers / Angelos Chaniotis
Part VII: Arts and sciences
26. Empires of knowledge: medicine and health in the Hellenistic world / Rebecca Flemming
27. The institutions of Hellenistic philosophy / Phillip Mitsis
28. Literature and its contexts / Richard Hunter
29. Hellenistic art, AD 1500-2000 / Andrew Stewart.

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