TY - BOOK AU - Shipley, Graham AU - Shipley,Graham TI - Th Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC SN - 9780415046183 U1 - W38 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Routledge N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1 Approaches and sources ......1 The period and its problems ......1 The literary sources .....5 Non-literary sources .......20 Conclusion .....31 2 Alexander and his sucessors to 276 BC .......33 The fourth century and after .......33 The successors ....40 The gauls .....52 Armies and emigration .......54 3 Kings and cities .....59 Representations of kingship .......60 The negotiation of power .....73 Civic society and socio-economic change .......86 Beyond the polis ........106 4 Macedonia ans greece .....108 Macedonia to 276 bc .......109 Greece under macedonian domination ....120 The spartan revolutions and their aftermath ....140 Athens and macedonia after 239 BC ......148 The limits of macedonian power .......152 5 Religion and philosophy ......153 Religious change .....153 Rival philosophies and common ground .....176 World-views and society .....190 6 Prolematic egypt .....192 Lnd and people ........192 Evidence .....196 The ptolemaic dynasty ....201 Greeks and macedonians in Egypt ........213 Economic administration .......224 The results of ptolemaic rule .....230 7 Literature and social identiry ....235 Writers in socirty ....235 Sities of production ......237 Tradition and innovation .....243 Different audiences ....247 The public and the personal .....253 The other .....259 Historiography and the community .....262 Conclusion .....269 8 The seleukid kingdom and pergamon ......271 Land and resources ....272 Crises and continuities in seleukid power 312-164 BC ......286 Methods of control ......293 The attalid dynasty (283-133 Bc) ......312 Seleukid decline .....320 9 Understanding the cosmos: Greek science after aristotle .....326 Greek thinkers in their society .....326 Engineering machanics and physics .....330 Understanding life-forms ........341 Mathematical speculation .....350 Exploration empire and economies .....359 Conclusion .....363 10 Rome and greece .....368 Rome in the third century .....370 Rome`s wars against macedonia and syria .....371 Mithradates ......386 The culmination of roman hegemony .....397 ER -