Hellenistic History and CulturePeter Green 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. |
Contents
Peter Green | 1 |
N G L Hammond | 12 |
Burstein | 36 |
The Meroitic kingdom | 39 |
Representations of elephants from Meroë I | 45 |
The BactroIndian frontier | 57 |
Martin Robertson | 67 |
Antiochus and Heracles Relief at Nemrud Dagh midfirst | 70 |
Old woman Marble late second or early first century B C | 100 |
Kylix by the Hegesiboulos Painter 27 Portraits from Delos second or early first century B C 1023 | 102 |
attack of the Laestrygonians | 104 |
Peter Levi | 111 |
Pastoral scene probably representing Theokritos Silver dish late Hellenistic period | 112 |
Socrates | 139 |
Zeno | 147 |
Epicurus | 149 |
Tyche of Antioch Small marble statue of Roman imperial date copied | 77 |
Youth with a lance Marble statue of Roman imperial date copied from | 83 |
Slabs of colossal marble relief from podium of Altar of Zeus at Pergamon Earlier second century B C | 87 |
Reconstruction of steps and return of carved marble parapet of Temple of Nike on Athenian Acropolis Late fifth century B C | 88 |
Drunken old woman Roman marble copy of third or secondcentury B C original I | 92 |
Nilotic mosaic from Palestrina circa 80 B C | 93 |
Marble votic relief by Archelaos of Priene circa 150 B C | 94 |
NeoAttic Maenad relief Marble circa 100 B C | 95 |
Terme Boxer Bronze second or early first century B C | 96 |
Portrait of Plato Roman marble copy of fourthcenturyB C | 98 |
Old fisherman Roman marble and alabaster copy of original of ? 200150 B C | 99 |
Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus 259 B C col 56 lines 713 | 170 |
Arsinoë II and Ptolemy Philadelphus as Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt Tanis 270246 B C | 198 |
White | 211 |
Reconstruction of Ktesibios water organ | 213 |
Ktesibian water pump from Silchester England | 215 |
Erich S Gruen | 238 |
Antiochus IV Epiphanes Gold stater minted at? Antioch | 239 |
Map of Palestine and Phoenicia | 241 |
The Citadel Jerusalem | 248 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 275 |
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