A Guide to Hellenistic LiteratureJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 280 pages This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period.
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... Macedonia and Greece Seleucid Asia Attalid Pergamum Ptolemaic Egypt 16 12 8 4 2 Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact 43 36 29 Authors and Genres 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 ...
... Macedonia and Greece Seleucid Asia Attalid Pergamum Ptolemaic Egypt 16 12 8 4 2 Aesthetics and Style 26 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aesthetic Principles Meter, Dialect, and Diction Literature as Artefact 43 36 29 Authors and Genres 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 ...
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... Macedonian political power over mainland Greece through an extraordinary military campaign that brought under his control Syria and Palestine, Egypt, and the old Persian empire. His march to the east ended only within the borders of ...
... Macedonian political power over mainland Greece through an extraordinary military campaign that brought under his control Syria and Palestine, Egypt, and the old Persian empire. His march to the east ended only within the borders of ...
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... Macedonian forces he had acquired a vast empire, but the task of consolidating political power and establishing administrative structures had scarcely begun at the time of his death. Lacking the tradition of constitutionally established ...
... Macedonian forces he had acquired a vast empire, but the task of consolidating political power and establishing administrative structures had scarcely begun at the time of his death. Lacking the tradition of constitutionally established ...
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... Macedonian naval power by defeating Ptolemy, commander in Egypt, at sea. Antigonus and his son were pronounced kings ... Macedonia and parts of Greece, the Seleucids in Asia, and the Ptolemies in Egypt. Another culturally important ...
... Macedonian naval power by defeating Ptolemy, commander in Egypt, at sea. Antigonus and his son were pronounced kings ... Macedonia and parts of Greece, the Seleucids in Asia, and the Ptolemies in Egypt. Another culturally important ...
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... Macedonia, located in northern Greece between Thrace to the northeast and the Illyrians to the northwest, was considered a fringe area of Hellenic society. But as recent archaeological discoveries have shown, the Macedonian aristocracy ...
... Macedonia, located in northern Greece between Thrace to the northeast and the Illyrians to the northwest, was considered a fringe area of Hellenic society. But as recent archaeological discoveries have shown, the Macedonian aristocracy ...
Contents
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2 Aesthetics and Style | 26 |
3 Authors and Genres | 50 |
4 Topics in Hellenistic Literature | 168 |
Notes | 223 |
Chronological Tables | 228 |
Suggested Reading | 230 |
Bibliography | 239 |
Index | 251 |
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