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  The Hellenistic World. New perspectives
edited by Daniel Ogden
ISBN 978-1-914535-32-1, paperback, 408 pp., b/w pls., figs., maps, 2023,
ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-3180-5 ISBN-10: 0-7156-3180-2, hardback, xxv+318 pp., b/w pls., figs., maps, 2002,
 

The history of the Hellenistic world has long been more popular than has widely been realized. This volume seeks to contribute to that popularity. Here are fourteen new perspectives on the period from a distinguished and international group of scholars. Their varied papers are grouped around five key themes: Structure and System, King and Court, Family and Kinship, Landscape and People, Art and Image. The popularity of the Hellenistic world is reflected in the CPW series dedicated to it: D. Ogden, Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death; and, I; A. Erskine & L. Llwellyn-Jones (eds), Creating a Hellenistic World; E. Carney, King and Court in Ancient Macedonia; I. Kralli, The Hellenistic Peloponnese; A. Erskine, L. Llwellyn-Jones and S. Wallace (eds), The Hellenistic Court; T. Howe and F. Pownall (eds) Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman Sources; K. Erickson (ed.), The Seleukid Empire (281-222 BC).

The Editor: Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History in the University of Exeter, after teaching in Swansea between 1991 and 2003. With the Classical Press of Wales he has also published Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death. The Hellenistic Dynasties (Second Edition 2023)Aristomenes of Messene (2003); In Search of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian’s Lover of Lies (2007). His books for other presses include Greek Bastardy (OUP, 1996); Greek and Roman Necromancy (Princeton, 2001); Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds (OUP, 2nd ed., 2009); Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality (UEP, 2011); Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman World (OUP, 2013); Dragons, Serpents and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds (OUP, 2013); The Legend of Seleucus (CUP, 2017); The Werewolf in the Ancient World (OUP, 2021); The Strix-Witch (CUP, 2021); and The Dragon in the West (OUP, 2021). Polygamy, Alexander and Seleucus together form a loose trilogy.

 

CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction. From Chaos to Cleopatra - Daniel Ogden
STRUCTURE AND SYSTEM
1. The interpretation of hellenistic sovereignties - John Davies
2. Eratosthenes' chlamys-shaped world: a misunderstood metaphor - Klaus Zimmermann
KING AND COURT
3. The kings of Macedon and the cult of Zeus in the hellenistic period - Sylvie le Bohec-Bouhet Translated by the editor
4. Hunting and the Macedonian elite: sharing the rivalry of the chase - Elizabeth Carney
5. The politics of distrust: Alexander and his Successors - Waldemar Heckel
FAMILY AND KINSHIP
6. O brother where art thou? Tales of kinship and diplomacy - Andrew Erskine
7. The Egyptian elite in the early Ptolemaic period. Some hieroglyphic evidence - Alan B. Lloyd
8. Families in early Ptolemaic Egypt - Dorothy Thompson
LANDSCAPE AND PEOPLE
9. The king and his land. Some remarks on the royal area (basilike chora) of hellenistic Asia Minor - Christian Mileta
10. Hidden landscapes: Greek field survey data and hellenistic history - Graham Shipley
11. Steppe and sea: the hellenistic north in the Black Sea region before the first century BC - David Braund
ART AND IMAGE
12. Hellenistic mosaics - Ruth Westgate
13. How the Venus de Milo lost her arms - Shelley Hales
14. Celluloid Cleopatras or Did the Greeks ever get to Egypt? - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Maps
Index
 

Phoenix 2004, 367-9.

"Real history, like real life, is messy around the edges, and if this book, like the Hellenistic age itself, does not present a neatly coherent and unified package, it is nonetheless a valuable study." Sheila L. Ager,