Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. 
<ul> <li>An overview of war and society in the Hellenistic world. 
</li> <li>Highlights the interdependence of warfare and social phenomena. 
</li> <li>Covers a wide range of topics, including social conditions as causes of war, the role of professional warriors, the discourse of war in Hellenistic cities, the budget of war, the collective memory of war, and the aesthetics of war. 
</li> <li>Draws on the abundance of primary sources available.</li> </ul>

War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (Ancient World at War)

History

Chaniotis, Angelos

Ancient Civilizations

Wiley/Blackwell

War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. His successors reorganized Persian lands to create a new empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, while in Greece and Macedonia a fragile balance of power repeatedly dissolved into war. Then, from the late third century BCE to the end of the first, Rome’s military and diplomatic might successively dismantled these post-Alexandrian political structures, one by one.
During the Hellenistic period (c. 323–30 BCE), small polities struggled to retain the illusion of their identity and independence, in the face of violent antagonism among large states. With time, trade growth resumed and centers of intellectual and artistic achievement sprang up across a vast network, from Italy to Afghanistan and Russia to Ethiopia. But the death of Cleopatra in 30 BCE brought this Hellenistic moment to a close―or so the story goes.
In Angelos Chaniotis’s view, however, the Hellenistic world continued to Hadrian’s death in 138 CE. Not only did Hellenistic social structures survive the coming of Rome, Chaniotis shows, but social, economic, and cultural trends that were set in motion between the deaths of Alexander and Cleopatra intensified during this extended period. Age of Conquests provides a compelling narrative of the main events that shaped ancient civilization during five crucial centuries. Many of these developments―globalization, the rise of megacities, technological progress, religious diversity, and rational governance―have parallels in our world today.

Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (History of the Ancient World)

Harvard University Press

How successful were the Athenians and other Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as 'law' both in the 'polis' and internationally? How did the courts attempt to implement this ideal, and how successful were they? This collection of essays sets out to answer these questions, focussing on the following themes: law, religion and the sources of legitimacy; substance and procedure; legal arguments in court; documents and witnesses; and law in an international context. There is much here to interest not only specialists in Greek law, but also those concerned more generally with both Greek history and the history of law.

The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece

Carey, Christopher

PARKER, ROBERT

Gagarin, Michael

Lanni, Adriaan

Mirhady, David

Naiden, Frederick

Bristol Classical Press

This publication is largely dedicated to the history, the architectural design and the exhibits of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, which opened its doors to the public in 2009. It is designed by Bernard Tschumi, a faculty member at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Tschumi is also an internationally acclaimed architect, having designed numerous large-scale projects, ranging from the Parc de la Villette in Paris to Columbia's own Alfred Lerner Hall. His design for the Acropolis Museum is based around three concepts: light, movement, and program (the edifice's purpose as an exhibit space). The publication features models of the Acropolis Museum, reproductions of Tschumi's drawings, and photographs of the interior of the museum.

The New Acropolis Museum

Arts & Photography

Tschumi, Bernard

PANDERMALIS, Dimitrios

Mylonopoulos, Ioannis

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Wallach Art Gallery

Die Öffnung der Welt: Eine Globalgeschichte des Hellenismus

wbg Theiss

SEG LXII covers the publications of the year 2012, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2011 but pertaining to material from 2012.

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume LXIII (2013) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

BRILL

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