Alexander to Actium (eBook)

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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART ONE. ALEXANDER'S FUNERAL GAMES, 323-276 B.C.
1. Pcrdiccas, Eumcnes, Cassandcr, 323-316
2. Antigonus One-Eye's Bid for Empire, 316-301
3. Demetrius of Phaleron: The Philosopher-King in
Action
4. Zcno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and Political
Disenchantment
J. Theophrastus, Menander, and the Transformation of
Attic Comedy
6. The Politics of Royal Patronage: Early Ptolemaic
Alexandria
7. Early Hellenistic Art and Its Antecedents, 380-270:
Space, Pathos, Realism; or, The Horse as Critic
8. The Division of the Spoils, 301-276

PART TWO. THE ZENITH CENTURY, 276-222 B.C.
9. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas,
276-239
10. The New Urban Culture: Alexandria, Antioch,
Pergamon
11. The Critic as Poet: Calli mach us, Aratus of Soli,
Lycophron
12. Kingship and Bureaucracy: The Government of the
Successor Kingdoms
13. Armchair Epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the Voyage
of Argo
14. Events in the West: Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome
15. Urbanized Pastoralism, or vice versa: The Idylls of
Theocritus, the ,Wimes of Herod as
16. The Road to Sellasia, 239-222

PART THREE. PHALANX AND LEGION, 221-168 B.C.
17. Polybius and the New Era
18. Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman Factor,
221-196
19. The Spread of Hellenism: Exploration, Assimilation,
Colonialism; or, The Dog That Barked in the Night
20. Middle-Period Hellenistic Art, 270-150:
Si monumentum requiris ...
21. Production, Trade, Finance
22. The Individual and Society: Slavery, Revolution,
Utopias
23. Ruler Cults, Traditional Religion, and the Ambivalence
ofTyche
24. From Cynoscephalae to Pydna: The Decline and Fall of
Macedonia, 196-168
PART FOUH. THE BREAKING OF NATIONS, 167-116 B.C.
25. The Wilderness as Peace, 167-146
26. Mathematics and Astronomy: The Alternative
Immortality
27. Technological Developments: Science as Praxis
28. Hellenistic Medicine; or, The Eye Has Its Limitations
29. Hellenism and the Jews: An Ideological Resistance
Movement?
30. Ptolemaic and Seleucid Decadence and the Rise of
Parthia, 145-116

PART FIVE. ROME TRIUMPHANT, 116-30 B.C.
31. Mithridates, Sulla, and the Freedom of the Greeks,
116-80
32. Late Hellenistic Art, 150-30: The Mass Market in
Nostalgia
33. Foreign and Mystery Cults, Oracles, Astrology, Magic
34. Academics, Skeptics, Peripatetics, Cynics
35. The Garden of Epicurus
36. Stoicism: The Wide and Sheltering Porch
37. Caesar, Pompey, and the Last of the Ptolemies, 80-30

CHRONOLOGY
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX