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Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Paul J. Kosmin read Ancient and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, and took his PhD in Ancient History at Harvard University, where he is now Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History. The core of his work to date has focused on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the east Mediterranean and west Asia in the Hellenistic period. Ian S. Moyer studied Classics at the University of Victoria, and completed his PhD in the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. He now teaches in the History Department at the University of Michigan, and his research traces political, cultural, and intellectual interactions between Egypt and the ancient Greek world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 148mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780192863478
• ISBN-10: 0192863479
• Artikelnr.: 66146358