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Tables of Contents for The Greek World After Alexander, 323-30 B.C.
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
x
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Note on Greek names and dates
xvii
Note on extracts
xvii
List of abbreviations
xviii
List of dates
xxv
Approaches and sources
1
32
The period and its problems
1
4
The literary sources
5
15
Non-literary sources
20
11
Conclusion
31
2
Alexander and his successors to 276 BC
33
26
The fourth century and after
33
7
The Successors
40
12
The Gauls
52
2
Armies and emigration
54
5
Kings and cities
59
49
Representations of kingship
60
13
The negotiation of power
73
13
Civic society and socio-economic change
86
20
Beyond the polis?
106
2
Macedonia and Greece
108
45
Macedonia to 276 BC
109
11
Greece under Macedonian domination
120
20
The Spartan `revolutions' and their aftermath
140
8
Athens and Macedonia after 239 BC
148
4
The limits of Macedonian power
152
1
Religion and philosophy
153
39
Religious change
153
23
Rival philosophies and common ground
176
14
World-views and society
190
2
Ptolemaic Egypt
192
43
Land and people
192
4
Evidence
196
5
The Ptolemaic dynasty
201
12
Greeks and Macedonians in Egypt
213
11
Economic administration
224
6
The results of Ptolemaic rule
230
5
Literature and social identity
235
36
Writers in society
235
2
Sites of production
237
6
Tradition and innovation
243
4
Different audiences?
247
6
The public and the personal
253
6
The `Other'
259
3
Historiography and the community
262
7
Conclusion
269
2
The Seleukid kingdom and Pergamon
271
55
Land and resources
272
14
Crises and continuties in Seleukid power, 312--164 BC
286
7
Methods of control
293
19
The Attalid dynasty (283--133 BC)
312
8
Seleukid decline
320
6
Understanding the cosmos: Greek `science' after Aristotle
326
42
Greek thinkers in their society
326
4
Engineering, mechanics, and physics
330
11
Understanding life-forms
341
9
Mathematical speculation
350
9
Exploration, empires, and economies
359
4
Conclusion
363
5
Rome and Greece
368
32
Rome in the third century
370
1
Rome's wars against Macedonia and Syria
371
15
Mithradates
386
11
The culmination of Roman begemony
397
3
Appendix I: Dynastic chronologies
400
4
Appendix II: Genealogical tables
404
3
Further reading
407
15
Notes
422
53
Bibliography
475
62
Index of sources
537
10
General index
547