The Cambridge Ancient History: pt. 1. The Hellenistic world
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 844
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Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World
Author: D. Alex Walthall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-12-31
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1316511057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing archaeological and documentary evidence, this book reveals the innerworkings of the Sicilian kingdom of the Hellenistic monarch Hieron II.
The Hellenistic World
Author: Frank William Walbank
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780674387263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. F. W. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.
The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest
Author: M. M. Austin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-10-22
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780521296663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive sourcebook in English concentrating entirely on the Hellenistic age.
The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 1, Genocide in the Ancient, Medieval and Premodern Worlds
Author: Ben Kiernan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 801
ISBN-13: 1108640346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the early modern era. The themes examined include the roles of racism, the state, religion, gender prejudice, famine, and climate crises, as well as the role of human decision-making in the causation of genocide. The case studies cover events on four continents, ranging from prehistoric Europe and the Andes to ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, the early Greek world, Rome, Carthage, and the Mediterranean. It continues with the Norman Conquest of England's North, the Crusades, the Mongol Conquests, medieval India and Viet Nam, and a panoramic study of pre-modern China, as well as the Spanish conquests of the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, and Mexico.
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Author: Nigel Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 113678800X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Scripture and Traditions
Author: Patrick Gray
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9047442016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains twenty-two essays in honor of Carl R. Holladay, whose work on the interaction between early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism has had a considerable impact on the study of the New Testament. The essays are grouped into three sections: Hellenistic Judaism; the New Testament in Context; and the History of Interpretation. Among the contributions are essays dealing with conversion in Greek-speaking Judaism and Christianity; 3 Maccabees as a narrative satire; retribution theology in Luke-Acts; church discipline in Matthew; the Exodus and comparative chronology in Jewish and patristic writings; corporal punishment in ancient Israel and early Christianity; and Die Judenfrage and the construction of ancient Judaism.
Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World
Author: Michael Champion
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-04-21
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 135180331X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViolence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a period in which warfare became more professionalised, and wars increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in political structures that led to political and cultural experimentation and transformation in which the political and cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism. Finally, and in a similar way, it saw expanded opportunities for cultural transfer in cities through (re)constructions of urban space. Violence thus entered the city through external military and political shocks, as well as within emerging social hierarchies and civic institutions. Such factors also inflected economic activity, religious practices and rituals, and the artistic, literary and philosophical life of the polis.
Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States
Author: Andrew Monson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 603
ISBN-13: 1107089204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first ever global survey of tax systems and their social and political contexts in premodern world history.
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
Author: Graham Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-31
Total Pages: 1941
ISBN-13: 1135942064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the HellenicTradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
