EIGHT. The Middle Stoics and Slavery

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS IX
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XI
4. Introduction 1
5. ONE. The Heroic Past in a Hellenistic Present 20
6. TWO. “These fragments have I shored against my ruins”: Apollonios Rhodios and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age 35
7. THREE. Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context 72
8. FOUR. Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective: The Book of Daniel 89
9. FIVE. The Hellenistic World and Roman Political Patronage 105
10. SIX. Athens between Rome and the Kings: 229/8 to 129 B.C. 120
11. SEVEN. Poseidonios and Athenion: A Study in Hellenistic Historiography 145
12. EIGHT. The Middle Stoics and Slavery 159
13. NINE. Physis and Nomos: Polybius, the Romans, and Cato the Elder 175
14. TEN. The Court Society of the Hellenistic Age 199
15. ELEVEN. Decolonizing Ptolemaic Egypt 225
16. TWELVE. The Infrastructure of Splendour: Census and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt 242
17. PUBLICATIONS OF F. W. WALBANK 259
18. GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 281
19. INDEX 305