Week 2:

‘Introductions’ to:

Collections of Sources, especially M.M. Austin , The Hellenistic World

P. Cartledge, P. Garnsey and Erich Gruen eds. Hellenistic Constructs ( Berkeley , 1997)

G. Bugh’s Cambridge Companion

 

A. Erskine, ‘Approaching the Hellenistic World’ in Erskine ed. Blackwell Companion

 

Week 3:

A. B. Bosworth, ‘Alexander the Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic Age’ in Bugh ed. Cambridge Companion

D. Braund ‘After Alexander’ in Erskine ed. Blackwell Companion

Sheila Ager ‘An Uneasy Balance’ in Erskine ed. Blackwell Companion

W. A. Adams ‘The Hellenistic Kingdoms’ in Bugh ed. Cambridge Companion

 

Week 4: Plutarch Life of Demetrius

Walbank ‘Monarchies’ in CAH VII

John Ma in Erskine ed.

John Ma Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor ( Oxford , 1999)

Angelos Chaniotis in Erskine ed.

L. Mooren, ‘The nature of the Hellenistic monarchy’, in Edmond Van't Dack [et al.] (ed.), Egypt and the Hellenistic world : proceedings of the international colloquium, Leuven 24-26 may 1982, Louvain , 1983, pp. 205-240

Week 5: Ptolemaic Kingship and Literature

Hazzard, R. Imagination of a Monarchy: studies in Ptolemaic Propaganda (2000)

Koenen, L. ‘The Ptolemaic king as a religious figure’, in A. Bulloch et al. (eds.) Images and Ideologies: Self-Definition in the Hellenistic World (Berkeley 1993), 25-114

Samuel, A. E. ‘The Ptolemies and the ideology of kingship’, in P. Green (ed.) Hellenistic History and Culture, (Berkeley 1993), 168-210

Stephens, S. A. (2003), Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria ( Berkeley )

Vasunia, P. (2001), The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander ( Berkeley )

— (2003), 'Hellenism and Empire: Reading Edward Said', Parallax 9.4: 88-97

Hunter, R. L. Theocritus: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Berkeley 2003)

— Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry ( Cambridge 1996) ch. 3

Selden, D. L. ‘Alibis’, Classical Antiquity 17 17.2: 289-412

Gutzwiller, K. A Guide to Hellenistic Literature (Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature, Oxford 2007), esp. on Apollonius

Also of interest are the following articles in Gutzwiller, K. The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (Oxford 2005):

Bing, P. ‘The Politics and Poetics of Geography in the Milan Posidippus, Section One: On Stones (AB 1-20)’ 119-40

Kuttner, A. ‘Cabinet Fit for a Queen: The Lithika as Posidippus' Gem Museum ’ 141-63

Fantuzzi, M. ‘Posidippus at Court: The Contribution of the Hippika of P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 to the Ideology of Ptolemaic Kingship’, 249-68

Thompson, D. J. ‘Posidippus, Poet of the Ptolemies’, 269-86

 

 

Weeks 7-8

Further Bibliography will be presented in class

Gutzwiller, K. A Guide to Hellenistic Literature (Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature, Oxford 2007)

G. Hutchinson, Hellenistic Poetry (1988)

T. Morgan, Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (1998)

 

Weeks 9-10

Bibliography will be presented in class

 

General Bibliography

Collections of Sources

M.M. Austin, The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest (1981)

R.S. Bagnall & P.S. Derow, Greek Historical Documents, the Hellenistic Period (1981)

S.M. Burstein, The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Cleopatra VII (1985)

P. Harding, From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus (1985)

N. Lewis & P. Reinhold, Roman Civilisation I (3 ed. 1990)

Plutarch, The Age of Alexander (Penguin, 1973); also in Loeb series, Lives VII.

R. K. Sherk, Rome and the Greek East to the Death of Augustus (1984)

The Greek Bucolic Poets (Loeb trans J. M. Edmonds)

Herodas (Loeb trans).

 

Secondary Literature

Z. Archibald, J.Davies, V. Gabrielsen, G.J. Oliver (edd.), Hellenistic Economies (2000).

R.S. Bagnall, The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions outside Egypt (1976)

A. Bowman , Egypt after the Pharoahs (1986)

Glenn Bugh ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World ( Cambridge , 2006)

Cambridge Ancient History VII.1, The Hellenistic World (1984)

P. Cartledge, P. Garnsey, E. Gruen (edd.), Hellenistic Constructs. Essays in Culture, History and Historiography (1997)

P. de Souza, Piracy in the Greek and Roman Worlds (1999)

R. M. Errington A History of the Hellenistic World (Oxford 2008)

A. Erskine (ed.) A Companion to the Hellenistic World (2003)

P. M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria (1972)

J. D. Grainger, Seleukos Nikator, Constructing a Hellenistic Kingdom (1990)

J. D. Grainger, The Cities of Seleukid Syria (1990)

P. Green, Alexander to Actium. The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1990)

C. Habicht, Athens from Alexander to Antony (1997).

N. G. L. Hammond & F. W. Walbank, A History of Macedonia III (1988)

R.A. Hazzard, Imagination of a Monarchy: studies in Ptolemaic Propaganda (2000)

Richard Hunter,The "Argonautica" of Apollonius (1993)

A. H. M. Jones, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces (2 ed., 1971)

A. Kuhrt & S. Sherwin-White, Hellenism in the East. The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilisations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander (1987)

J. A. O. Larsen, Greek Federal States (1968)

H.S. Lund, Lysimachus (1992)

M. Lefkowitz and M. Fant, Womens' Lives in Greece and Rome (1993)

N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (1986)

T. Morgan, Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (1998)

A. Momigliano, Alien Wisdom: the Limits of Hellenisation (1975)

D. Ogden , Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death, the Hellenistic Dynasties (1999)

D. Ogden , Hellenistic World: New Perspectives (2003)

S. Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra (1984)

M. Rostovtzeff, Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World (1941)

S. Sherwin-White & A. Kuhrt, From Samarkhand to Sardis : a New Approach to the Seleucid Empire (1993)

G. Shipley, The Greek World after Alexander, 323-30BC (Routledge, 1999)

D. J. Thompson, Memphis under the Ptolemies (1988)

F. W. Walbank, The Hellenistic World (1986/92)

 

Classics Web resources

 

These are becoming more comprehensive and important all the time, but they also change frequently. It is always best to cite the print version if that is accessible. To cite a web-page right-click on it and choose properties, give Author, if possible, Title as it appears on the screen, URL, date modified, and date accessed.

 

Because of constant changes, the best starting point is Google and you need to learn how to use it, e.g. for academic web-sites – American ones have the suffix edu – add the word “bibliography” to your search and the name of an author or title of a book which a decent web-site on that topic should include, the stranger the name the better. Also note the “cached” function for disrupted or removed web-sites.

 

These are some of the most important sites:

 

Warwick Library:

Warwick E-Resources

Warwick Books, Brill’s New Pauly and OCD should both be accessible

Warwick E-Journals and Databases

 

Note especially JSTOR, Project Muse, Cambridge Journals Online

*Perseus. Another vitally important site, with lots of ancient texts and images. It keeps changing however and can be a bit labyrinthine.

 

BMCR - http:/ /ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/ - slightly inconsistent in quality, but often more lengthy than other reviews, giving a nice sense of debate and good coverage (in English) of foreign especially German publications

 

A random selection of a few other useful sites:

TOCS-IN, very useful for searching out articles on a topic, http:/ /www.chass.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/amphoras/tocfind ... and also for journal abbreviations http:/ /www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tdata/inform.html

 

 

Hellenistic World gateway: http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/hellenistic/1.html