Herakleides

Herakleides

Author: Lorelei Hilda Corcoran

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1606060368

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Herakleides was a young man who lived and died in Roman Egypt almost 2000 years ago. This multidisciplinary study of his mummy highlights the funerary practices and religious beliefs of his world.


The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World

The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World

Author: Glenn R. Bugh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1139827111

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This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world - religion, philosophy, family, economy, material culture, and military campaigns, among other topics. The essays address key questions about this period: To what extent were Alexander's conquests responsible for the creation of this new 'Hellenistic' age? What is the essence of this world and how does it differ from its Classical predecessor? What continuities and discontinuities can be identified? Collectively, the essays provide an in-depth view of a complex world. The volume also provides a bibliography on the topics along with recommendations for further reading.


Kallimachos

Kallimachos

Author: Rudolf Blum

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0299131734

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The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum’s landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools still in use to this day: the library catalog and the “biobibliographical” reference work. Kallimachos expanded the library’s inventory lists into volumes called the Pinakes, which extensively described and categorized each work and became in effect a Greek national bibliography and the source and paradigm for most later bibliographic lists of Greek literature. Though the Pinakes have not survived, Blum attempts a detailed reconstruction of Kallimachos’s inventories and catalogs based on a careful analysis of surviving sources, which are presented here in full translation.


History of Greece

History of Greece

Author: George Grote

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-08-12

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 3368910418

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Reproduction of the original.