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The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation
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The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation Paperback - 2003

by Bagnall, Roger S. [Editor]; Derow, Peter [Editor];

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  • Title The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation
  • Author Bagnall, Roger S. [Editor]; Derow, Peter [Editor];
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
  • Date 2003-10-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Concordance, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SKU0488921
  • ISBN 9781405101332 / 1405101334
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.75 in (24.41 x 16.99 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Greece - History - 281-146 B.C, Mediterranean Region - History - To 476
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002153416
  • Dewey Decimal Code 938.08

First line

Following his victory over the Persians in the cavalry battle at the Granikos River in May 334, Alexander proceeded south in Asia Minor and, after his arrival at Ephesos, set about the liberation of the Greek cities (Arrian 1.18.1-2; on Alexander's actions and policy here see A. J. Heisserer, Alexander the Great and the Greeks [Norman, OK, 1980], especially chapter 6).

From the rear cover

Thousands of documents surviving on stone and papyrus help us to understand the complex society that took shape after the death of Alexander the Great. This book presents some of the most revealing of these documents in translation, allowing readers to form a direct impression of life in the Hellenistic world.

The book contains 175 documents capturing the political, social, economic, and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities. It covers the entire Hellenistic world and draws extensively on the papyrus remains of the Ptolemaic kingdom in Egypt, which allow an unequalled depth of insight into daily life at every level of society.

About the author

Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Classics and History at Columbia University. He has edited numerous papyri and ostraka and his previous publications include Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994) and Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993).

Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford and Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Oxford. He has published on Hellenistic history and epigraphy and Roman republican history, and has a special interest in Polybius and dealings between Rome and the Greeks. He is co-editor with Robert Parker of Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest (2003).