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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... kings held power through military conquest and personal excellence. Alexander, the last of the Argead dynasty, left no heir capable of securing the succession. His half-brother, Philip III Arrhidaeus, was considered mentally deficient ...
... kings held power through military conquest and personal excellence. Alexander, the last of the Argead dynasty, left no heir capable of securing the succession. His half-brother, Philip III Arrhidaeus, was considered mentally deficient ...
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... kings (basileis), in an apparent claim to replace the Argeads. But shortly after, other Successors also accepted the title of king; overlordship of a division of Alexander's empire rather than the whole was now the reality, if not the ...
... kings (basileis), in an apparent claim to replace the Argeads. But shortly after, other Successors also accepted the title of king; overlordship of a division of Alexander's empire rather than the whole was now the reality, if not the ...
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... king who resisted the opulent trappings adopted by his counterparts in Asia and Egypt. His court was a cultured one, filled with poets, philosophers, and historians, and apparently dominated by his personal interests in Stoic. 4 HISTORY ...
... king who resisted the opulent trappings adopted by his counterparts in Asia and Egypt. His court was a cultured one, filled with poets, philosophers, and historians, and apparently dominated by his personal interests in Stoic. 4 HISTORY ...
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... king to guide him in his desire to find true happiness and to be a virtuous ruler. Aratus of Soli (see Ch. 3.5), whose astronomical poem entitled Phaenomena has Stoic underpinnings, also dwelled at Antigonus' court. The king was ...
... king to guide him in his desire to find true happiness and to be a virtuous ruler. Aratus of Soli (see Ch. 3.5), whose astronomical poem entitled Phaenomena has Stoic underpinnings, also dwelled at Antigonus' court. The king was ...
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... king of that name near the agora and now visible in restoration, and a series of statues set up on the Acropolis (partially surviving in copies) that represented mythological and historical victories over forces of chaos (including the ...
... king of that name near the agora and now visible in restoration, and a series of statues set up on the Acropolis (partially surviving in copies) that represented mythological and historical victories over forces of chaos (including the ...
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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