The House of Ptolemy:
The Hellenistic World Outside of the Ptolemaic Realms

The Hellenistic World Outside of the Ptolemaic Realms

• --- Hellenistic Era Overview
  Quickly covers: Battles of Alexander's Successors, Egypt Under the Ptolemies, Alexandrian Poetry, Seleucid Empire, Judea in the Hellenistic Era, Antigonid Macedonia and Greece, Xenocrates, Pyrrho, and Theophrastus, Menander's New Comedy, Epicurus and the Hedonists, and Zeno and the Stoics
• --- The Hellenistic Period in World History
  By Stanley M. Burstein. This pamphlet summarizes the findings of contemporary scholarship concerning the Hellenistic period. This period was the first age of Western imperial expansion in Asia and one of the principal formative epochs in the history of ancient Eurasia. The interaction of Greek and non-Greek culture in the vast area from the Mediterranean to the borders of India laid the foundations for the Christian and Islamic civilizations of the Middle Ages.
  Michael Furlough, Online Scholarship Initiative University of Virginia e-mail: osiuva@virginia.edu URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/osi/ . Prepared as a pilot project for the American Historical Association. (Mar 1997).
• --- The Hellenistic States and their Culture
  Short essay by Steve Muhlberger of Nipissing University for use in his History 2055 -- Ancient Civilizations course.
• The Later Seleucids
  Thumbnail histories from Seleucus IV Philopator (187-175 BCE) through to the takeover of Syria by Tigranes of Armenia 83-69 BCE. Includes coin portraits of the rulers.
• --- The House of Hiero of Syracuse 3rd century BCE (Royal Family Tree)
  Those in red were killed in 214 BCE by the pro-Roman faction of Syracuse.
• --- Cleomenes (263-219 BCE) by Plutarch
  Plutarch's Description of Cleomenes of Sparta. Written ca. 75 CE (Translated by John Dryden)
• --- Ashoka's 14 Rock Edicts
  Asoka's 13th Rock Edict records that he tried to spread Buddhism to the Hellenistic realms of the Medterranean.
  Towards the end of the 13th Edict one can see:
  "And it (conquest by Dhamma) has been won here, on the borders, even six hundred yojanas away, where the Greek king Antiochos rules, beyond there where the four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule, likewise in the south among the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni."
  [The kings mentioned are: Antiochos II Theos of Syria (261-246 BCE), Ptolemy II Philadelphos of Egypt (285-247 BCE), Antigonos Gonatos of Macedonia (278-239 BCE), Magas of Cyrene (300-258 BCE) and Alexander of Epirus (272-258 BCE).]

Bibliographic Notes:
The Hellenistic World Outside of the Ptolemaic Realms

	--- (BMCR 2.6.9), Green, P: Alexander to Actium. The Hellenistic Age. Author: Green, PeterAlexander to Actium. The Hellenistic Age. London: Thames and Hudson; Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press 1990. 970 pp. 30 maps & 217 illustrations. Review by D. Potter [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists] Order this book in hardcover from Amazon.com Order this book in softcover from Amazon.com or read the reviews provided.
	The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest - A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation by Austin, M. M. 1981, 6 x 9in, 506 pp. 5 maps (Paperback) ISBN 0-521-29666-8 Presents a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary on the history, institutions, society and economic life of the Hellenistic world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late 2nd century BCE. Order this book from Amazon.com
--- (BMCR 94.4.11), Walbank, F W: The Hellenistic World Walbank, F. W. The Hellenistic World. Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Revised edition. Pp. 288. $12.95. ISBN 0-674-38726-0 (pb). Reviewed by Edmund F. Bloedow -- University of Ottawa [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists] Order this book from Amazon.com or just look over its Table of Contents.
--- (BMCR 98.11.19) G M Cohen: The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, Hellenistic Culture and Society, 17, Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, Hellenistic Culture and Society, 17, Berkeley-Los Angeles-Oxford: University of California Press (1995). ISBN 0-520-08329-6 Reviewed by Gary Reger, Trinity College (gary.reger @ trincoll.edu) [Bryn Mawr Classical Review provides reviews of books of interest to classisists] Order This book from Amazon.com or just look over its Table of Contents.

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