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Title:

The Hellenistic West : rethinking the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Jonathan R.W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxi, 471 pages : illustrations,maps, 8 pages of plates ; 25 cm

Subject:

Mediterranean Region--Greek influences.--Greek influences.
Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.
Hellenism--History.
Greeks--Mediterranean Region--History.
Greeks--Colonization--Mediterranean Region.
Civilisation hellénistique.
Colonisation--Royaumes hellénistiques.
Méditerranée (région)--Civilisation.
Hellenismus.
Mittelmeerraum--West.
Civilization--Greek influences.
Greeks.
Greeks--Colonization.
Hellenism.
Mediterranean Region.
To 476
History.

Other Authors:

Prag, J. R. W., editor of compilation. editor of compilation.
Quinn, Josephine Crawley, editor of compilation. editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan R.W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn -- The view from the East / Andrew Erskine -- Hellenistic Pompeii : between Oscan, Greek, Roman, and Punic / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- The 'Hellenistics of death' in Adriatic central Italy / Edward Bispham -- Hellenistic Sicily, c.270-100 BC / R.J.A. Wilson -- Trading across the Syrtes : Euesperides and the Punic world / Andrew Wilson -- Strangers in the city : elite communication in the Hellenistic central Mediterranean / Elizabeth Fentress -- Monumental power : 'Numidian royal architecture' in context / Josephine Crawley Quinn -- Representing hellenistic Numidia, in Africa and at Rome / Ann Kuttner -- Hellenism as subaltern practice : rural cults in the Punic world / Peter van Dommelen and Mireia Lopez-Bertran -- Were the Iberians Hellenized? / Simon Keay -- Epigraphy in the western Mediterranean : a Hellenistic phenomenon? / Jonathan R.W. Prag -- Heracles, coinage, and the West : three Hellenistic case-studies / Liv Mariah Yarrow -- On the significance of East and West in today's 'Hellenistic' history / Nicholas Purcell.

ISBN:

1107032423
9781107032422

OCLC:

(OCoLC)841199129

LCCN:

2013013369

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)