A meticulous analysis of Hellenistic culture spanning three centuries, from the death of Alexander the Great in 325 B.C. Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development in this colorful, complex period that will fascinate all readers. 217 illustrations, 30 maps A meticulous analysis of Hellenistic culture spanning three centuries, from the death of Alexander the Great in 325 B.C. Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development in this colorful, complex period that will fascinate all readers. 217 illustrations, 30 maps. List of Maps xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv PART ONE. ALEXANDER'S FUNERAL GAMES, 323--276 B.C. 1(134) Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323--316 3(18) Antigonus One-Eye's Bid for Empire, 316--301 21(15) Demetrius of Phaleron: The Philosopher-King in Action 36(16) Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and Political Disenchantment 52(13) Theophrastus, Menander, and the Transformation of Attic Comedy 65(15) The Politics of Royal Patronage: Early Ptolemaic Alexandria 80(12) Early Hellenistic Art and Its Antecedents, 380--270: Space, Pathos, Realism; or, The Horse as Critic 92(27) The Division of the Spoils, 301--276 119(16) PART TWO. THE ZENITH CENTURY, 276--222 B.C. 135(132) Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276--239 137(18) The New Urban Culture: Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon 155(16) The Critic as Poet: Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron 171(16) Kingship and Bureaucracy: The Government of the Successor Kingdoms 187(14) Armchair Epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the Voyage of Argo 201(15) Events in the West: Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome 216(17) Urbanized Pastoralism, or vice versa: The Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas 233(15) The Road to Sellasia, 239--222 248(19) PART THREE. PHALANX AND LEGION, 221--168 B.C. 267(166) Polybius and the New Era 269(17) Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman Factor, 221--196 286(26) The Spread of Hellenism: Exploration, Assimilation, Colonialism; or, The Dog That Barked in the Night 312(24) Middle-Period Hellenistic Art, 270--150: Si monumentum requiris... 336(26) Production, Trade, Finance 362(20) The Individual and Society: Slavery, Revolution, Utopias 382(14) Ruler Cults, Traditional Religion, and the Ambivalence of Tyche 396(18) From Cynoscephalae to Pydna: The Decline and Fall of Macedonia, 196--168 414(19) PART FOUR. THE BREAKING OF NATIONS, 167--116 B.C. 433(112) The Wilderness as Peace, 167--146 435(18) Mathematics and Astronomy: The Alternative Immortality 453(14) Technological Developments: Science as Praxis 467(13) Hellenistic Medicine; or, The Eye Has Its Limitations 480(17) Hellenism and the Jews: An Ideological Resistance Movement? 497(28) Ptolemaic and Seleucid Decadence and the Rise of Parthia, 145--116 525(20) PART FIVE. ROME TRIUMPHANT, 116--30 B.C. 545(138) Mithridates, Sulla, and the Freedom of the Greeks, 116--80 547(19) Late Hellenistic Art, 150--30: The Mass Market in Nostalgia 566(20) Foreign and Mystery Cults, Oracles, Astrology, Magic 586(16) Academics, Skeptics, Peripatetics, Cynics 602(16) The Garden of Epicurus 618(13) Stoicism: The Wide and Sheltering Porch 631(16) Caesar, Pompey, and the Last of the Ptolemies, 80--30 647(36) Chronology 683(48) Genealogical Tables 731(10) Notes 741(168) Select Bibliography 909(20) Index 929