Hellenistic History and Culture

Peter Green

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520203259
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520917095
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

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.


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 o

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• PREFACE
• ABBREVIATIONS
• Introduction: New Approaches to the Hellenistic World
• The Macedonian Imprint on the Hellenistic World
• RESPONSE: E. N. BORZA
• DISCUSSION
• The Hellenistic Fringe: The Case of Meroe
• RESPONSE: FRANK HOLT
• DISCUSSION
• What Is “Hellenistic” about Hellenistic Art?
• RESPONSE: J. J. POLLITT
• DISCUSSION
• People in a Landscape:
• RESPONSE: DAVID M. HALPERIN
• DISCUSSION
• Hellenistic Ethics and Philosophical Power
• RESPONSE: PAUL WOODRUFF
• DISCUSSION
• The Ptolemies and the Ideology of Kingship
• RESPONSE: DIANA DELIA
• DISCUSSION
• “The Base Mechanic Arts”? Some Thoughts on the Contribution of Science (Pure and Applied) to the Culture of the Hellenistic Age
• RESPONSE: JOHN SCARBOROUGH
• DISCUSSION
• Hellenism and Persecution Antiochus IV and the Jews
• RESPONSE: M. GWYN MORGAN
• DISCUSSION
• CONTRIBUTORS
• Index