The Heroic Past in a Hellenistic Present / Susan E. Alcock -- "These fragments have I shored against my ruins": Apollonios Rhodios and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age / Peter Green -- Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context / Erich S. Gruen -- Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective: The Book of Daniel / Fergus Millar -- The Hellenistic World and Roman Political Patronage / Jean-Louis Ferrary -- Athens between Rome and the Kings: 229/8 to 129 B.C. / H. Mattingly -- Poseidonios and Athenion: A Study in Hellenistic Historiography / Klaus Bringmann -- The Middle Stoics and Slavery / Peter Garnsey -- Physis and Nomos: Polybius, the Romans, and Cato the Elder / A.M. Eckstein -- The Court Society of the Hellenistic Age / Gabriel Herman -- Decolonizing Ptolemaic Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- The Infrastructure of Splendour: Census and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson
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"Publications of F.W. Walbank": pages 259-279
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index
