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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
PART ONE. ALEXANDER'S FUNERAL GAMES, 323-276 B.C.
1. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316
2. Antigonus One-Eye's Bid for Empire, 316-301
3. Demetrius of Phaleron: The Philosopher-King in Action
4. Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and Political Disenchantment
5. 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: Callimachus, 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 Mimes of Herodas
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 of Tyche
24. From Cynoscephalae to Pydna: The Decline and Fall of Macedonia, 196-168
PART FOUR. 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
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