LEADER 00000cam a2200565 a 4500 001 ocm13332042 005 20090717214656.0 008 941109t19901990cauab b s001 0 eng 010 86004339 020 0520056116|qalkaline paper 035 (OCoLC)ocm13332042 035 400813 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dTBS|dBUR|dVP@ 043 mm-----|ae-gr--- 049 RIDM 050 00 DE86|b.G738 1990 082 00 938|219 090 DE86 .G738 1990 100 1 Green, Peter,|d1924-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names /n50033968 245 10 Alexander to Actium :|bthe historical evolution of the Hellenistic age /|cPeter Green. 264 1 Berkeley :|bUniversity of California Press,|c[1990] 264 4 |c©1990 300 xxiii, 970 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c26 cm. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 490 1 Hellenistic culture and society ;|v1 500 "A Centennial book"--P. before ser. t.p. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 909-928) and index. 505 0 Alexander's funeral games, 323-276 B.C. -- The zenith century, 276-222 B.C. -- Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. -- The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. -- Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. 505 0 pt. 1. Alexander's funeral games, 323-276 B.C. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316 -- Antigonus one-eye's bid for empire, 316-301 -- Demetrius of Phaleron : the philosopher -king in action -- Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and political disenchantment -- Theophrastus, Menander, and the transformation of attic comedy -- The politics of royal patronage : early Ptolemaic Alexandria -- Early Hellenistic art and its antecedents, 380-270 : space, pathos, realism ; or, the horse as critic -- The division of the spoils, 301-276 -- pt. 2. The Zenith century, 276- 222 B.C. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276- 239 -- The new urban culture : Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon -- The critic as poet : Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron -- Kingship and bureaucracy : the government of the successor kingdoms -- Armchair epic : Apollonius Rhodius and the voyage of Argo -- Events in the West : Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome -- Urbanized pastoralism, or vice versa : the Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas -- The road to Sellasia, 239-222 -- 505 0 pt. 3. Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. Polybius and the new era -- Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman factor, 221-196 -- The spread of Hellenism : exploration, assimilation, colonialism ; or, the dog that barked in the night -- Middle-period Hellenistic art, 270-150 : Si monumentum requiris ... -- Production, trade, finance -- The individual and society : slavery, revolution, utopias -- Ruler cults, traditional religion, and the ambivalence of Tyche -- From Cynoscephalae to Pydna : the decline and fall of Macedonia, 196-168 -- pt. 4. The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. The wilderness as peace, 167-146 -- Mathematics and astronomy : the alternative immortality -- Technological developments : science as Praxis -- Hellenistic medicine; or, the eye has its limitations -- Hellenism and the Jews : an ideological resistance movement? -- Ptolemaic and Seleucid decadence and the rise of Parthia, 145-116 -- 505 0 pt. 5. Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. Mithridates, Sulla, and the freedom of the Greeks, 116-80 -- Late Hellenistic art, 150-30 : the mass market in nostalgia -- Foreign and mystery cults, oracles, astrology, magic -- Academics, skeptics, peripatetics, cynics -- The garden of Epicurus - - Stoicism : the wide and sheltering porch -- Caesar, Pompey, and the last of the Ptolemies, 80-30. 648 7 To 476|2fast 650 0 Hellenism.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85060062 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Hellenism.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/954758 651 0 Mediterranean Region|xHistory|yTo 476.|0https://id.loc.gov /authorities/subjects/sh98005633 651 0 Greece|xHistory|yMacedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.|0https: //id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057088 651 0 Greece|xHistory|y281-146 B.C.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85057089 651 7 Mediterranean Region.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1239752 830 0 Hellenistic culture and society ;|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n86708921|v1. 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/ucal051/86004339.html 856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/ description/ucal041/86004339.html 901 MARCIVE 20231220 935 400813 994 C0|bRID
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