Erskine A. (ed.) A Companion to the Hellenistic World

Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 0-631-22537-4.Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritative Companion explores the world that Alexander created but did not live to see.
- Comprises 29 original essays by leading international scholars.
- Essential reading for courses on Hellenistic history.
- Combines narrative and thematic approaches to the period.
- Draws on the very latest research.
- Covers a broad range of topics, spanning political, religious, social, economic and cultural history.Approaching the Hellenistic World (Andrew Erskine).
Narratives.
After Alexander: the Emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323-281 (David Braund).
An Uneasy Balance: from the Death of Seleukos to the Battle of Raphia (Sheila L. Ager).
The Arrival of Rome: from the Illyrian Wars to the Fall of Macedon (Peter Derow).
Subjection and Resistance: to the Death of Mithradates (Brian McGing).
A Roman East: Pompey’s Settlement to the Death of Augustus (Claude Eilers).
Protagonists.
The Ptolemies and Egypt (Dorothy J. Thompson).
The Seleukids and Asia (Michel Austin).
Macedon and the Mainland, 280-221 (Joseph B. Scholten).
The Attalids of Pergamon (Elizabeth Kosmetatou).
Change and Continuity.
Kings (John Ma).
Cities (Richard Billows).
The Past in a Hellenistic Present: Myth and Local Tradition (Tanja S. Scheer).
Space and Geography (Klaus Geus).
Greeks and Others.
Town and Country in Ptolemaic Egypt (Jane Rowlandson).
Jews and Greeks (Erich S. Gruen).
The Galatians: Representation and Reality (Stephen Mitchell).
Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic Age (Emma Dench).
Society and Economy.
Family Structures (Riet van Bremen).
The Economy (Gary Reger).
Reading the Landscape: Survey Archaeology and the Hellenistic Oikoumene (Susan E. Alcock, Jennqer E. Gates and Jane E. Rempel).
Warfare (Patrick Baker).
Piracy and the Slave-Trade (Vincent Gabrielsen).
Gods and Men.
Hellenistic Religion (David Potter).
The Divinity of Hellenistic Rulers (Anjelos Chaniotis).
Arts and Sciences.
Empires of Knowledge: Medicine and Health in the Hellenistic World (Rebecca Flemming).
The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy (Phillip Mitsis).
Literature and its Contexts (Richard Hunter).
Hellenistic Art, AD 1500-2000 (Andrew Stewart).