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pt. 1. Alexander's funeral games, 323-276 B.C. Perdiccas, Eumenes, Cassander, 323-316
Antigonus one-eye's bid for empire, 316-301
Demetrius of Phaleron : the philosopher-king in action
Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and political disenchantment
Theophrastus, Menander, and the transformation of attic comedy
The politics of royal patronage : early Ptolemaic Alexandria
Early Hellenistic art and its antecedents, 380-270 : space, pathos, realism ; or, the horse as critic
The division of the spoils, 301-276
pt. 2. The Zenith century, 276-222 B.C. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239
The new urban culture : Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon
The critic as poet : Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron
Kingship and bureaucracy : the government of the successor kingdoms
Armchair epic : Apollonius Rhodius and the voyage of Argo
Events in the West : Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome
Urbanized pastoralism, or vice versa : the Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas
The road to Sellasia, 239-222
pt. 3. Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. Polybius and the new era
Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman factor, 221-196
The spread of Hellenism : exploration, assimilation, colonialism ; or, the dog that barked in the night
Middle-period Hellenistic art, 270-150 : Si monumentum requiris...
Production, trade, finance
The individual and society : slavery, revolution, utopias
Ruler cults, traditional religion, and the ambivalence of Tyche
From Cynoscephalae to Pydna : the decline and fall of Macedonia, 196-168
pt. 4. The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. The wilderness as peace, 167-146
Mathematics and astronomy : the alternative immortality
Technological developments : science as Praxis
Hellenistic medicine; or, the eye has its limitations
Hellenism and the Jews : an ideological resistance movement?
Ptolemaic and Seleucid decadence and the rise of Parthia, 145-116
pt. 5. Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. Mithridates, Sulla, and the freedom of the Greeks, 116-80
Late Hellenistic art, 150-30 : the mass market in nostalgia
Foreign and mystery cults, oracles, astrology, magic
Academics, skeptics, peripatetics, cynics
The garden of Epicurus
Stoicism : the wide and sheltering porch
Caesar, Pompey, and the last of the Ptolemies, 80-30.
Antigonus one-eye's bid for empire, 316-301
Demetrius of Phaleron : the philosopher-king in action
Zeno, Diogenes, Epicurus, and political disenchantment
Theophrastus, Menander, and the transformation of attic comedy
The politics of royal patronage : early Ptolemaic Alexandria
Early Hellenistic art and its antecedents, 380-270 : space, pathos, realism ; or, the horse as critic
The division of the spoils, 301-276
pt. 2. The Zenith century, 276-222 B.C. Ptolemy Philadelphos and Antigonus Gonatas, 276-239
The new urban culture : Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon
The critic as poet : Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Lycophron
Kingship and bureaucracy : the government of the successor kingdoms
Armchair epic : Apollonius Rhodius and the voyage of Argo
Events in the West : Sicily, Magna Graecia, Rome
Urbanized pastoralism, or vice versa : the Idylls of Theocritus, the Mimes of Herodas
The road to Sellasia, 239-222
pt. 3. Phalanx and legion, 221-168 B.C. Polybius and the new era
Antiochus III, Philip V, and the Roman factor, 221-196
The spread of Hellenism : exploration, assimilation, colonialism ; or, the dog that barked in the night
Middle-period Hellenistic art, 270-150 : Si monumentum requiris...
Production, trade, finance
The individual and society : slavery, revolution, utopias
Ruler cults, traditional religion, and the ambivalence of Tyche
From Cynoscephalae to Pydna : the decline and fall of Macedonia, 196-168
pt. 4. The breaking of nations, 167-116 B.C. The wilderness as peace, 167-146
Mathematics and astronomy : the alternative immortality
Technological developments : science as Praxis
Hellenistic medicine; or, the eye has its limitations
Hellenism and the Jews : an ideological resistance movement?
Ptolemaic and Seleucid decadence and the rise of Parthia, 145-116
pt. 5. Rome triumphant, 116-30 B.C. Mithridates, Sulla, and the freedom of the Greeks, 116-80
Late Hellenistic art, 150-30 : the mass market in nostalgia
Foreign and mystery cults, oracles, astrology, magic
Academics, skeptics, peripatetics, cynics
The garden of Epicurus
Stoicism : the wide and sheltering porch
Caesar, Pompey, and the last of the Ptolemies, 80-30.