15. From Civic Worship to Megatheism: Religions in a Cosmopolitan World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps x
4. List of Figures xxvi
5. Preface xxx
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. How It All Began: From Macedonia to the Oecumene (356–323 bc) 10
8. 2. The Successors: Adventurers and Architects of Kingdoms (323–275 bc) 31
9. 3. ‘Old’ Greece in the Short Third Century: Struggles for Survival, Freedom and Hegemony (279–217 bc) 56
10. 4. The Ptolemaic Golden Age (283–217 bc) 74
11. 5. Kings and Kingdoms 85
12. 6. The City-state in a World of Federations and Empires 122
13. 7. Entanglement: The Coming of Rome (221–188 bc) 148
14. 8. The Greek States Become Roman Provinces (188–129 bc) 175
15. 9. Decline and Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms in Asia and Egypt (188–80 bc) 193
16. 10. A Battlefield of Foreign Ambitions (88–30 bc) 207
17. 11. A Roman East: Local Histories and Their Global Context (30 bc–ad 138) 233
18. 12. Emperors, Cities and Provinces from Augustus to Hadrian (30 bc–ad 138) 261
19. 13. Socio-economic Conditions: From Greek Cities to an ‘Ecumenical’ Network 291
20. 14. Social and Cultural Trends: Benefactors, Confrères, Ephebes, Athletes, Women and Slaves 317
21. 15. From Civic Worship to Megatheism: Religions in a Cosmopolitan World 344
22. 16. The Greeks and the Oecumene 386
23. References and Sources 401
24. Bibliography 418
25. Chronology 427
26. Index 436