Hellenistic history and culture / edited and with an introduction by Peter Green.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ideas - they are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.

Introduction : New approaches to the Hellenistic world / Peter Green -- The Macedonian imprint on the Hellenistic World / N.G.L. Hammond. Response / E.N. Borza -- The Hellenistic fringe : the case of Meroë / S.M. Burstein. Response / Frank Holt -- What is "Hellenistic" about Hellenistic art? / Martin Robertson. Response / J.J. Pollitt -- People in a landscape : Theokritos / Peter Levi. Response / David M. Halperin -- Hellenistic ethics and philosophical power / A.A. Long. Response / Paul Woodruff -- The Ptolemies and the ideology of kingship / A.E. Samuel. Response / Diana Delia -- "The base mechanic arts"? : some thoughts on the contribution of science (pure and applied) to the culture of the Hellenistic Age / K.D. White. Response / John Scarborough -- Hellenism and persecution : Antiochus IV and the Jews / Erich S. Gruen. Response / M. Gwyn Morgan.

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