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