Author: Julia E. Annas
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, society, culture, mind, philosophy
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 1994-09-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520076591
ISBN-13: 9780520076594

Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul--an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul’s physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic philosophy of mind so lucidly and authoritatively that specialists and nonspecialists alike will find her book rewarding.In part, the Hellenistic epoch was a "scientific" period that broke with tradition in ways that have an affinity with the modern shift from the seventeenth and eighteenth ce

Author: Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, society, culture, athens, religion
Number of Pages: 385
Published: 1998-06-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0520210239
ISBN-13: 9780520210233

Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome’s domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion during this period represented a decline from the classical era. Drawing from epigraphical, historical, literary, and archaeological sources, Mikalson traces the religious cults and beliefs of Athenians from the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. to the devastation of

Author: Frank L. Holt
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, culture, society, bactria, thundering, making, zeus
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-04-30
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0520211405
ISBN-13: 9780520211407

Thundering Zeus uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century B.C. Diodotus I and II, whose dynasty emblazoned its coins with the dynamic image of Thundering Zeus, led this historic movement by breaking free of the Seleucid Empire and building a strong independent state in Central Asia. The chronology and crises that defined their reigns have been established here for the first time, and

Author: Richard A. Billows
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, state, society, culture, creation, one, eyed, antigonos
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1997-06-06
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0520208803
ISBN-13: 9780520208803

Called by Plutarch "the oldest and greatest of Alexander’s successors," Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the first detailed study of this great general and administrator, establishing him as a key contributor to the Hellenistic monarchy and state. After a successful career under Philip and Alexander, Antigonos rose to power over the Asian portion of Alexander’s conquests. Embittered by

Author: Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, culture, society, context, epigrams, garlands, poetic
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 1998-03-05
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0520208579
ISBN-13: 9780520208575

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 literary forms of the era, the epigram, unlike any other ancient or classical form of poetry, was not only composed for public recitation but was also collected in books intended for private reading. Brief and concise, concerned with the personal and the particular, the epigram emerged in the Hellenistic period as a sophisticated literary form that evinces the period’s aesthetic preference for the miniature, the intr

Author: Getzel M. Cohen
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, africa, culture, society, north, sea, settlements, syria, red, basin
Number of Pages: 501
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0520241487
ISBN-13: 9780520241480

This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen’s organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red Sea Basin, and North Africa from 331 to 31 BCE. Organized geographically, the volume pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects. Cohen’s magisterial breadth of focus enables him to provide more than a compilation of information;

Author: Joseph B. Scholten
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: hellenistic, era, society, culture, koinon, plunder, aitolians, politics
Number of Pages: 365
Published: 2000-05-08
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0520201876
ISBN-13: 9780520201873

Between 279 and 229 B.C., the Aitolian koinon, a federation of mountain cantons in west central Greece, expanded to incorporate many of the neighboring lands and peoples lying between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. This new political configuration contributed to the development of modern systems of federal democracy based on proportional representation. Despite these institutional advances, the Aitolians and their polity are reviled in the ancient historical tradition, which views them as backward, semibarbarous brigands. The Politics of Plunder is the first English-language book in