A Companion to the Hellenistic World [Paperback]

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• Comprises 29 original essays by leading international scholars.
  
• Essential reading for courses on Hellenistic history.
  
• Combines narrative and thematic approaches to the period.
  
• Draws on the very latest research.
  
• Covers a broad range of topics, spanning political, religious, social, economic and cultural history.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Ancient Authors: Abbreviations and Glossary.

Reference Works: Abbreviations.

Approaching the Hellenistic World: Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh).

Part I: Narratives:.

2. After Alexander: The emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323–281: David Braund (University of Exeter).

3. An Uneasy Balance: From the Death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia: Sheila L. Ager (University of Waterloo).

4. The Arrival of Rome: The Illyrian Wars to the Fall of Macedon: Peter Derow (University of Oxford).

5. Subjection and Resistance: To the Death of Mithridates: Brian McGing (Trinity College, Dublin).

6. A Roman East: Pompey’s Settlement to the Death of Augustus: Claude Eilers (McMaster University).

Part II: Protagonists:.

7. The Ptolemies and Egypt: Dorothy J. Thompson (University of Cambridge).

8. The Seleuló#