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In honor of beloved Virgil
O degli altri poeti onore e lume
Dante, Inferno
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution
to this book provided by the Classical Literature Endowment Fund
of the University of California Press Foundation, which is
supported by a major gift from Joan Palevsky.
HELLENISTIC CULTURE AND SOCIETY
General Editors: Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich s. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew F. stewart
| I. | Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green |
| II. | Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander, edited by Amlie Kuhrt and susan sherwin-White |
| III. | The Question of Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy, edited by J. M. dillon and A. A. Long |
| IV. | Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, by Richard A. Billows |
| V. | A History of Macedonia , by R. Malcolm Errington, translated by Catherine Errington |
| VI. | Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86B.c., by stephen V. tracy |
| VII. | The Vanished Library:A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora |
| VIII. | Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, by Julia E. Annas |
| IX. | Hellenistic History and Culture, edited by Peter Green |
| X. | The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica, by James J. Clauss |
| XI. | Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics, by Andrew stewart |
| XII. | Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, edited by Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich s. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew stewart |
| XIII. | From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, by susan sherwin-White and Amlie Kuhrt |
| XIV. | Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos, 314-167 B.c., by Gary Reger |
| XV. | Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.c., by Robert Kallet-Marx |
| XVI. | Moral Vision in The Histories of Polybius, by Arthur M. Eckstein |
| XVII. | The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, by Getzel M. Cohen |
| XVIII. | Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337-90 B.c., by sheila L. Ager |
| XIX. | Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage, by Joan B. Burton |
| XX. | Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.c., by stephen V. Tracy |
| XXI. | Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva |
| XXII. | Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, by Kent J. Rigsby |
| XXIII. | The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-odile Goulet-Caz |
| XXIV. | The Politics of Plunder: Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279-217 B. c., by Joseph B. scholten |
| XXV. | The Argonautika, by Apollonios Rhodios, translated, with introduction, commentary, and glossary, by Peter Green |
| XXVI. | Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography, edited by Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey, and Erich s. Gruen |
| XXVII. | Josephus's Interpretation of the Bible, by Louis H. Feldman |
| XXVIII. | Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context, by Kathryn J. Gutzwiller |
| XXIX. | Religion in Hellenistic Athens, by Jon D. Mikalson |
| XXX. | Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, by Erich s. Gruen |
| XXXI. | The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties, by shaye d. Cohen |
| XXXII. | Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria, by Frank L. Holt |
| XXXIII. | Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 B. C.E. -117 c.E.), by John M. G. Barclay |
| XXXIV. | From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context, edited by Nancy T. de Grummond and Brunilde s. Ridgway |
| XXXV. | Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition, by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes |
| XXXVI. | Stoic Studies, by A. A. Long |
| XXXVII. | Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, by susan A. stephens |
| XXXVIII. | Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B. c., by stephen V. Tracy |
| XXXIX. | Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by Theocritus, translated with an introduction and commentary by Richard Hunter |
| XL. | The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity, by Kathy L. Gaca |
| XLI. | Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories, by Craige B. Champion |
| XLII. | Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens, with an introduction and commentary by Alan C. Bowen and Robert B. Todd |
| XLIII. | Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context, by sara Raup Johnson |
| XLIV. | Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions, by Frank L. Holt |
| XLV. | The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period, by sen Hemingway |
| XLVI. | The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, by Getzel M. Cohen |
| XLVII. | Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, by Frank L. Holt |
| XLVIII. | Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome, by Arthur M. Eckstein |
| XLIX. | Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, by Jean Bingen. Edited and introduced by Roger s. Bagnall |
| L. | Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers, edited by Tessa Rajak, sarah Pearce, James Aitken, and Jennifer Dines |
| LI. | The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva |
| LII. | From Alexander to Jesus, by Ory Amitay |
From Alexander
to Jesus
Ory Amitay
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