Covers the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the defeat of Cleopatra. Comprises 29 original essays by leading international scholars. Essential reading for courses on Hellenistic history. Combines narrative and thematic approaches to the period. Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this book explores the world that Alexander created but did not live to see. It also features reading for courses on Hellenistic history. List of Figures x List of Contributors xii Preface xvii Acknowledgements xviii Ancient Authors: Abbreviations and Glossary xix Reference Works: Abbreviations xxiv Approaching the Hellenistic World 1(16) Andrew Erskine Part I Narratives 17(86) After Alexander: the Emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323--281 19(16) David Braund An Uneasy Balance: from the Death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia 35(16) Sheila L. Ager The Arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the Fall of Macedon 51(20) Peter Derow Subjection and Resistance: to the Death of Mithradates 71(19) Brian McGing A Roman East: Pompey's Settlement to the Death of Augustus 90(13) Claude Eilers Part II Protagonists 103(72) The Ptolemies and Egypt 105(16) Dorothy J. Thompson The Seleukids and Asia 121(13) Michel Austin Macedon and the Mainland, 280-221 134(25) Joseph B. Scholten The Attalids of Pergamon 159(16) Elizabeth Kosmetatou Part III Change and Continuity 175(72) Kings 177(19) John Ma Cities 196(20) Richard Billows The Past in a Hellenistic Present: Myth and Local Tradition 216(16) Tanja S. Scheer Space and Geography 232(15) Klaus Geus Part IV Greeks and Others 247(64) Town and Country in Ptolemaic Egypt 249(15) Jane Rowlandson Jews and Greeks 264(16) Erich S. Gruen The Galatians: Representation and Reality 280(14) Stephen Mitchell Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic Age 294(17) Emma Dench Part V Society and Economy 311(94) Family Structures 313(18) Riet van Bremen The Economy 331(23) Gary Reger Reading the Landscape: Survey Archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene 354(19) Susan E. Alcock Jennifer E. Gates Jane E. Rempel Warfare 373(16) Patrick Baker Piracy and the Slave-Trade 389(16) Vincent Gabrielsen Part VI Gods and Men 405(42) Hellenistic Religion 407(24) David Potter The Divinity of Hellenistic Rulers 431(16) Angelos Chaniotis Part VII Arts and Sciences 447(68) Empires of Knowledge: Medicine and Health in the Hellenistic World 449(15) Rebecca Flemming The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy 464(13) Phillip Mitsis Literature and its Contexts 477(17) Richard Hunter Hellenistic Art, AD 1500--2000 494(21) Andrew Stewart Bibliography 515(52) Chronology 567(7) Index 574