Hellenistic History and Culture [Paperback]

In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.

A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western, Greco-Roman tradition, and Nubians, Bactrians, and other subject peoples of the time are receiving attention in their own right, not just as recipients of Greco-Roman culture.

History, like Herakleitos' river, never stands still. These essays share a collective sense of discovery and a sparking of new ideasthey are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.

Peter Greenis Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. Novelist and scholar, his recent books includeAlexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.(California, 1991),Alexander to Actium(California, 1990), andThe Laughter of Aphrodite(California, 1993).

Contributors:S. M. Burstein, E. S. Gruen, N. G. L. Hammond, P. Levi, A. A. Long, M. Robertson, A. E. Samuel, K. D. White