Alexander to Actium: the historical evolution of the Hellenistic age

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pt. 1. Alexander's funeral games, 323-276 B.C. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316 -- Antigonus one-eye's bid for empire, 316-301 -- Demetrius of Phaleron : the philosopher-king in action -- Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and political disenchantment -- Theophrastus, Menander, and the transformation of attic comedy -- The politics of royal patronage : early Ptolemaic Alexandria -- Early Hellenistic art and its antecedents, 380-270 : space, pathos, realism ; or, the horse as critic -- The division of the spoils, 301-276 -- pt. 2. The Zenith century, 276-222 B.C. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239 -- The new urban culture : Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon -- The critic as poet : Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron -- Kingship and bureaucracy : the government of the successor kingdoms -- Armchair epic : Apollonius Rhodius and the voyage of Argo -- Events in the West : Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome -- Urbanized pastoralism, or vice versa : the Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas -- The road to Sellasia, 239-222.;pt. 3. Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. Polybius and the new era -- Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman factor, 221-196 -- The spread of Hellenism : exploration, assimilation, colonialism ; or, the dog that barked in the night -- Middle-period Hellenistic art, 270-150 : Si monumentum requiris ... -- Production, trade, finance -- The individual and society : slavery, revolution, utopias -- Ruler cults, traditional religion, and the ambivalence of Tyche -- From Cynoscephalae to Pydna : the decline and fall of Macedonia, 196-168 -- pt. 4. The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. The wilderness as peace, 167-146 -- Mathematics and astronomy : the alternative immortality -- Technological developments : science as Praxis -- Hellenistic medicine; or, the eye has its limitations -- Hellenism and the Jews : an ideological resistance movement? -- Ptolemaic and Seleucid decadence and the rise of Parthia, 145-116.;pt. 5. Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. Mithridates, Sulla, and the freedom of the Greeks, 116-80 -- Late Hellenistic art, 150-30 : the mass market in nostalgia -- Foreign and mystery cults, oracles, astrology, magic -- Academics, skeptics, peripatetics, cynics -- The garden of Epicurus -- Stoicism : the wide and sheltering porch -- Caesar, Pompey, and the last of the Ptolemies, 80-30. pt. 1. Alexander's funeral games, 323-276 B.C. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316 -- Antigonus one-eye's bid for empire, 316-301 -- Demetrius of Phaleron : the philosopher-king in action -- Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and political disenchantment -- Theophrastus, Menander, and the transformation of attic comedy -- The politics of royal patronage : early Ptolemaic Alexandria -- Early Hellenistic art and its antecedents, 380-270 : space, pathos, realism or, the horse as critic -- The division of the spoils, 301-276 -- pt. 2. The Zenith century, 276-222 B.C. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239 -- The new urban culture : Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon -- The critic as poet : Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron -- Kingship and bureaucracy : the government of the successor kingdoms -- Armchair epic : Apollonius Rhodius and the voyage of Argo -- Events in the West : Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome -- Urbanized pastoralism, or vice versa : the Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas -- The road to Sellasia, 239-222. pt. 3. Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. Polybius and the new era -- Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman factor, 221-196 -- The spread of Hellenism : exploration, assimilation, colonialism or, the dog that barked in the night -- Middle-period Hellenistic art, 270-150 : Si monumentum requiris ... -- Production, trade, finance -- The individual and society : slavery, revolution, utopias -- Ruler cults, traditional religion, and the ambivalence of Tyche -- From Cynoscephalae to Pydna : the decline and fall of Macedonia, 196-168 -- pt. 4. The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. The wilderness as peace, 167-146 -- Mathematics and astronomy : the alternative immortality -- Technological developments : science as Praxis -- Hellenistic medicine or, the eye has its limitations -- Hellenism and the Jews : an ideological resistance movement? -- Ptolemaic and Seleucid decadence and the rise of Parthia, 145-116. pt. 5. Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. Mithridates, Sulla, and the freedom of the Greeks, 116-80 -- Late Hellenistic art, 150-30 : the mass market in nostalgia -- Foreign and mystery cults, oracles, astrology, magic -- Academics, skeptics, peripatetics, cynics -- The garden of Epicurus -- Stoicism : the wide and sheltering porch -- Caesar, Pompey, and the last of the Ptolemies, 80-30.