| Description |
1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Contents |
Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Paul J. Kosmin and Ian S. Moyer -- I . THE BIG EVENTS: PATTERN AND CRISIS -- 1. The Maccabean Model: Resistance or Adjustment? / Erich S. Gruen -- 2. The 'Great Theban Revolt', 206-186 / Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse -- I I . THE GROUNDS FOR RESISTANCE -- 3. Memory and Resistance in the Seleucid World: The Case of Babylon / Johannes Haubold -- 4. 'After Him a King Will Arise': Framing Resistance in Seleucid Babylonia / Kathryn Stevens -- 5. Diverging Memories, Not Resistance Literature: The Maccabean Crisis in the Animal Apocalypse and 1 and 2 Maccabees / Sylvie Honigman -- 6. Revolts, Resistance, and the Materiality of the Moral Order in Ptolemaic Egypt / Ian S. Moyer -- III. THE EDGES OF RESISTANCE -- 7. An Impossible Resistance? Anatolian Populations, Ethnicity, and Greek Powers in Asia Minor during the Second Century / Laurent Capdetrey -- 8. 'Herakles is stronger, Seleucus': Local History and Local Resistance in Pontic Herakleia / Daniel Tober -- 9. Central Asian Challenges to Seleucid Authority: Synchronism, Correlation, and Causation as Historiographical Devices in Justin's Epitome of Trogus / Rachel Mairs -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. Featuring specialists in Judaea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor, in an effort to trace comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of resistance |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast |
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Written communication -- Egypt -- History
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Written communication -- Middle East -- History
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Hellenism.
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Hellenism.
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Hellenism
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Written communication
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Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005633
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Egypt
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Mediterranean Region
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Moyer, Ian S
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| ISBN |
9780192678270 |
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0192678272 |
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