The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII

Translated Documents of Greece and Rome

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Greek and Roman history has largely been reconstructed from the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, and other major authors who are today well represented in English translations. But much equally valuable documentary material is buried in inscriptions and papyri and in the works of Greek and Roman grammarians and scholars, and less well known historians and literary figures, of whose writings only isolated quotations have been preserved. Translated Documents of Greece and Rome has been planned to provide, above all, primary source material for the study of the classical world. It makes important historical documents available in English to scholars and students of classical history. The format of the translations is remarkable in attempting to reproduce faithfully the textual difficulties and uncertainties inherent in the documents, so that the reader without a knowledge of classical languages can assess the reliability of the various readings and interpretations. The author's purpose in compiling this book is to help the teaching of Hellenistic history at undergraduate and graduate level by providing students and teachers with a representative selection of accurately translated documents dealing with the political and social history of Greece and the Near and Middle East from c. 300 to c. 30 BC. The continuing vitality of the Greek cities in the Hellenistic period and the interaction of Greek and non-Greek cultures in the Near and Middle East after Alexander are the two themes to which the author pays particular attention. In accordance with the principles of this series, selections from readily available major authors such as Polybius and Plutarch have been excluded except where unavoidable. Instead the bulk of the selections have been drawn from papyrological and epigraphical sources, many of which have never been translated into English before. The texts include city decrees and regulations, royal letters and ordinances, records of embassies and judicial decisions, dedications, treaties, statue bases, and documents dealing with the establishment of festivals, dynastic and other religious cults, education and other endowments. Brief commentaries and bibliographical notes accompany each text. Students and teachers of ancient history and classical civilization will welcome this book. Those studying Jewish history and the historical background of early Christianity will also find it interesting.

Volume Editor's Introduction	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xvi
Symbols	p. xx
From Ipsos to Korupedion (301-281)	p. 1
Ephesos honors Nikagoras, son of Aristarchos, from Rhodes, ambassador of Demetrios Poliorketes and Seleukos	p. 1
Miletos honors the future Antiochos I for providing funds for a stoa	p. 2
Dedication of Arsinoe (II) to the Great Gods	p. 4
Athens honors Poseidippos for aiding an embassy to Kassandros	p. 4
Papyrus containing excerpts from an Olympiad chronicle	p. 5
Athens honors Herodoros, a courtier of Demetrios Poliorketes	p. 7
Hymn honoring Demetrios Poliorketes as a god	p. 8
The Ionian League honors Hippostratos, strategos in charge of the cities of the Ionian League	p. 9
Letter of Seleukos I informing Miletos of a dedication by him to Apollo at Didyma	p. 11
Priene establishes a cult in honor of King Lysimachos	p. 12
Athens honors Philippides, son of Philokles, from Kephale, a friend of King Lysimachos	p. 13
Letter of King Lysimachos to the Samians concerning a boundary dispute with Priene	p. 15
Athens honors the archon Euthios	p. 17
A letter of Epicurus concerning the ransoming of Mithres, dioiketes of Lysimachos	p. 18
The Seleucid Kingdom	p. 20
A decree of Ilion honoring Antiochos I	p. 20
The crossing of the Galatians to Asia	p. 21
Priene honors Sotas, son of Lykos, for valor against the Galatians	p. 22
Biography of the epic poet Simonides of Magnesia	p. 24
A decree of the villages of Neoteichos and Kiddios	p. 24
Decree of Ilion honoring Metrodoros, physician to Antiochos I	p. 26
Dossier concerning a grant of royal land by Antiochos I to Aristodikides of Assos	p. 26
Treaty between Antiochos I or II and Lysimacheia	p. 29
Letter of Antiochos I or II to Erythrai	p. 30
Letter of Antiochos II concerning a sale of land to his wife Laodike	p. 31
List of Milesian eponyms from 313 to 260 (selections)	p. 33
Letter of Ziaelas, king of Bithynia, concerning the sanctuary of Asklepios on Kos	p. 34
Decree of the Koan deme of the Aigelioi in honor of Anaxippos, a public physician	p. 35
Union of Teos and the fortress of Kyrbissos	p. 35
Letter of Antiochos III concerning the foundation of a colony	p. 37
The foundation of the festival of Artemis Leukophryene at Magnesia on the Maeander	p. 38
Decree of the Aitolian League recognizing the inviolability of Magnesia on the Maeander	p. 40
Decree of Antioch in Persis recognizing the festival of the Leukophryenia established by Magnesia on the Maeander	p. 41
Teos awards Antiochos III and his queen Laodike III divine honors for granting the city inviolability and relieving it of the tributes it had paid to Attalos I	p. 43
Sidon honors Diotimos, son of Dionysios, for his victory in the chariot race at the Nemean games	p. 45
Letter of Antiochos III granting privileges to the Jews for their aid during the Fifth Syrian War	p. 46
Letter of Queen Laodike III, wife of Antiochos III, to Iasos	p. 47
Treaty ending a war between Miletos and Magnesia on the Maeander	p. 48
Athens honors Eumenes II and his brother Attalos for aiding Antiochos IV to become king	p. 51
Antiochos IV as king of Egypt	p. 52
Miletos honors Eirenias, son of Eirenias	p. 54
A dedication to Antiochos IV as founder of Babylon	p. 55
Dossier concerning the exemption of the Samaritans from the persecution of the Jews by Antiochos IV	p. 56
Letter of Antiochos V announcing the end of the persecution of the Jews begun by Antiochos IV	p. 57
Treaty of alliance between Rome and the Jews	p. 58
Monument in honor of Phile, daughter of Apollonios	p. 59
The Lindos Chronicle	p. 60
Miletos honors Theophanes, son of Hiroitas	p. 63
A syncretistic ruler cult: the self-deification of Antiochos I of Kommagene	p. 63
The Greeks in Baktria and India	p. 67
Pillar base containing an elegiac dedication and five Delphic maxims	p. 67
Bilingual inscription of Asoka	p. 67
The Greeks in Baktria	p. 68
A dedication to the god of the Oxos River	p. 71
Dedication to the Hindu god Vishnu by Heliodoros, son of Dion	p. 72
Macedon and the Greeks of Europe	p. 73
Manumission of slaves with paramone restriction	p. 73
Athens honors Kallias, son of Thymochares, from Sphettos, Ptolemaic governor of Halikarnassos	p. 74
The Chremonides decree	p. 77
An Athenian patriot: the life of Philochoros	p. 80
The end of the Chremonidean War: Athens under Macedonian rule	p. 80
Athens honors Zeno, the founder of Stoicism	p. 81
Honors for Herakleitos, son of Asklepiades, from Athmonea	p. 82
Decree of the isoteleis stationed at Rhamnous in honor of the strategos, Apollodoros, son of Apollodoros	p. 83
Chios recognizes the Delphic Soteria as reorganized by the Aitolian league	p. 84
Dedication by Antigonos Doson to Apollo in commemoration of the battle of Sellasia	p. 86
Lamia honors the poetess Aristodama of Smyrna	p. 86
A letter of King Philippos V of Macedonia to Larisa	p. 87
Regulations for the Macedonian army on campaign	p. 88
Biographical inscription honoring Eurykleides, son of Mikion, from Kephisia, for a career of distinguished service to Athens	p. 90
Istria honors Agathokles, son of Antiphilos	p. 91
Honors for Satyros, son of Polemarchos, overseer of the sanctuary and city of Delphi for the Aitolian League	p. 93
Delphic proxeny list	p. 94
Decree of Elateia in Phokis honoring Stymphalos in Arkadia for giving refuge to the Elateians during their exile	p. 95
Ordinance of King Philippos V concerning the property of Sarapis at Thessalonike	p. 97
Megalopolis honors Philopoimen with heroic honors	p. 98
The Spartan exiles honor Kallikrates for restoring them to Sparta	p. 99
Decree of the Roman senate concerning the Sarapieion at Delos	p. 99
Base for a statue of the philosopher Karneades	p. 100
Treaty between King Pharnakes I of Pontos and the city of Chersonesos	p. 101
Elis honors Lucius Mummius	p. 102
Elis honors Polybius, son of Lykortas	p. 102
Dossier concerning the arbitration of a land dispute between Messene and Sparta by Miletos	p. 102
Heading for a list of Athenians who held the office of gymnasiarch on Delos	p. 104
Delphi honors the harpist Polygnota of Thebes and her cousin, Lykinos	p. 105
Pergamon	p. 107
The Pergamene Chronicle	p. 107
Delphi honors the family of Philetairos	p. 108
Victory monument of Attalos I	p. 108
Dedication of booty by Eumenes II and his allies	p. 109
Amphiktiones honor Eumenes II and recognize the Nikephoria	p. 110
Letter of Eumenes II to the Ionian League	p. 111
Delphi honors Attalos II for establishing an educational endowment	p. 113
Letter of Attalos II praising Aristo[---], tutor of Attalos III	p. 115
Decree of Pergamon on citizenship after the death of Attalos III	p. 115
Ptolemaic Egypt: kingdom and empire	p. 117
Decree of the League of the Islanders recognizing the Ptolemaieia	p. 117
Alexandrian sacred law concerning sacrifices to Arsinoe Philadelphos	p. 119
Allocation of the apomoira to the cult of Arsinoe Philadelphos	p. 119
Letter of Ptolemaios II to Miletos	p. 120
Letter of Ptolemaios II concerning the revenues	p. 121
Demotic copy of an order of Ptolemaios II concerning the preparation of a comprehensive survey of Egypt	p. 122
Report on the Third Syrian War, possibly by Ptolemaios III	p. 123
The Adulis Inscription of Ptolemaios III	p. 125
Telmessos honors Ptolemaios, son of Lysimachos	p. 126
Selections from a memorandum of instructions by a dioiketes to an oikonomos	p. 128
Narrative of the establishment of the cult of Sarapis on Delos	p. 130
The Rosetta Stone: selections from the Greek version of a trilingual decree (Greek, Hieroglyphic (= Middle Egyptian) and Demotic) passed by a synod of the priests of Egypt at Memphis on the occasion of the coronation of Ptolemaios V (204-180) as king of Egypt	p. 131
Testament of Ptolemaios VIII Euergetes II, leaving his kingdom of Cyrene to the Romans	p. 134
Persecution of intellectuals by Ptolemaios VIII	p. 135
An Egyptian apocalypse: the 'Oracle of the Potter'	p. 136
Amnesty decree issued by Ptolemaios VIII and his co-regents Kleopatra II and Kleopatra III	p. 139
Petition of the priests of Isis at Philae	p. 141
Letter of Ptolemaios X Alexander I (101-88) granting the right of asyium to the temple of Horos at Athribis	p. 143
Act of obeisance to Isis by Kallimachos, governor of the Thebaid	p. 143
Honorary decree for Kallimachos, strategos of the Thebaid	p. 144
'Praises of Isis'	p. 146
Glossary	p. 149
Appendixes	p. 155
King lists	p. 155
Chronology	p. 157
Indexes	p. 159
Personal names	p. 159
Gods and goddesses	p. 163
Geographical names	p. 164
Subjects and terms	p. 167
Translated passages	p. 172
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ISBN: 9780521281584
ISBN-10: 052128158X
Series: Translated Documents of Greece and Rome
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English , Greek , Latin
Number Of Pages: 196
Published: 25th November 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.1
Weight (kg): 0.3