CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction. From Chaos to Cleopatra
Daniel Ogden (University of Wales, Swansea)

STRUCTURE AND SYSTEM

1. The interpenetration of hellenistic sovereignties John Davies (University of Liverpool)

2. Eratosthenes’ chlamys-shaped world: a misunderstood metaphor Klaus Zimmermann (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)

KING AND COURT

3. The kings of Macedon and the cult of Zeus in thehellenistic periodSylvie le Bohec-Bouhet (Université de Rouen)Translated by the editor

4. Hunting and the Macedonian elite: sharing the rivalryof the chase Elizabeth Carney (Clemson University)

5. The politics of distrust: Alexander and his Successor Waldemar Heckel (University of Calgary)

FAMILY AND KINSHIP

6. O brother where art thou? Tales of kinship and diplomacy Andrew Erskine (National University of Ireland, Galway)

7. The Egyptian elite in the early Ptolemaic period. Some hieroglyphic evidenceAlan B. Lloyd (University of Wales, Swansea)

8. Families in early Ptolemaic Egypt Dorothy Thompson (Girton College, Cambridge

LANDSCAPE AND PEOPLE

9. The king and his land. Some remarks on the royal area (basilikē chōra) of hellenistic Asia Minor Christian Mileta (Freie Universitat, Berlin)

10. Hidden landscapes: Greek field survey data and hellenistic history Graham Shipley (University of Leicester)

11. Steppe and sea: the hellenistic north in the Black Sea region before the first century BC David Braund (University of Exeter)

ART AND IMAGE

12. Hellenistic mosaics Ruth Westgate (Cardiff University, University of Wales)

13. How the Venus de Milo lost her arms Shelley Hales (University of Bristol)

14. Celluloid Cleopatras or Did the Greeks ever get to Egypt? Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Open University)

Maps

Index