* Maps * Preface * Theseus Unites Attica's Inhabitants, or the Origins of the City-State * The Theraeans Embark for Cyrene, or How to Found a Colony: A National Legend * Lydian Coins, or the Origins of Money * Graffiti on Ramses II's Leg, or Greek Mercenaries and Merchants in Pharaonic Egypt * Phalaris's Bull, or One Aspect of the Crisis: Tyranny *You Will Destroy a Great Empire! or Oracles and Soothsayers *And Cleisthenes Had the People Join His Hetaireia or the Bases of Athenian Democracy * Histiaeus of Miletus and the Tattooed Slave, or Greeks and Persians in Asia Minor ca. 550--ca. 490 * An Ostracizing Potsherd, or the Progress of Democracy after the Greco-Persian Wars * Complaints of a Bastard, or Pericles' Law on Citizenship * Hippolytus's Prayer to Zeus, or Women in the City-State * The Story of a Broken Sigma, or Athenian Imperialism * Two Thousand Helots Gone! or Slaves in the City-State * Naked and Unarmed in the Dark, or Training and Initiation of Spartan Youth * Nicocles of Salamis in Cyprus, or Foreigners in the City-State * Pasion Bequeaths His Wife, or from Slavery to Freedom * An Arabian Owl, or Greek Trade and Culture in the Near and Middle East before Alexander * The Susa Weddings, or Alexander, Iran, and the Greeks * A Hymn for Demetrios Poliorcetes, or New Kings, New Gods * In Io's Footsteps, or Greek Settlement in Alexander's Empire * Long Live Poverty! or Revolutions in Sparta in the Third Century * A Capital on the Banks of the Amu Darya, or the Greeks in Bactria and India * Gymnasium: Keep Out! or Education and Citizenship in the Hellenistic World * A Wild Ass for the King, or Greeks, Jews, and Hellenism in the Transjordan * An Epigram from Sidon, or Hellenism in Syria in the Third and Second Centuries B.C.E. * The Promotion of Toriaion, or How to Become a City-State * Steles of Mercenaries from Sidon, or the Army and the War in the Hellenistic World * Jason the Impious, or Hellenism in Jerusalem * Amphora Stamps from Rhodes and Elsewhere, or Exchanges in the Mediterranean Region and Beyond, Third to First Centuries B.C.E. * Let Us Pray for Archippe's Recovery! or Women and Euergetism *Kill Them All, or the Greeks, Rome, and Mithridates VI Eupator * Prizes for an Athlete from Miletus, or Competition and Greek Culture * Epaminondas Offers a Banquet, or Civic Ruin and Philanthropy in Greece in the First Century C.E. *The Sun and the Stars, or Rome, the Client Princes, and the Provinces in the Eastern Mediterranean * Pagan Martyrs in Alexandria, or Greeks and Jews in Alexandria in the First Century C.E. *Let Them Be Free, or Nero and Greek Freedom * Eating Roots in Aspendos, or Grain Crises and Speculation in Asia Minor in the First Century * The Child in the Cauldron, or Indigenous Gods, Greek Gods in the Near East * Farmers in Flight (163 C.E.), or Agriculture and Rural Life in Greco-Roman Egypt * Urinating in Front of Aphrodite, or Jews and Greeks Six Centuries Later * Of the Proper Use of Hellenic Letters, or How to Be Christian and Cultivated * The Death of Hypatia, or Remaining Pagan in a Christian World * Afterword * Notes * Glossary * Index
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Oct 11, 2013
Patrick Monsieur + 4
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