The Hellenistic West

Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean

By: Jonathan R. W. Prag (Editor), Josephine Crawley Quinn (Editor)

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Hardcover | 24 October 2013

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Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the ''Hellenistic world''; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the ''Greek East'' and the ''Roman West'' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek history than a reflection of the Hellenistic-period Mediterranean, which was a strongly interconnected cultural and economic zone, with the rising Roman republic just one among many powers in the region, east and west. The contributors argue for a dynamic reading of the economy, politics and history of the central and western Mediterranean beyond Rome, and in doing so problematise the concepts of ''East'', ''West'' and ''Hellenistic'' itself.

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'... this valuable volume can be studied by scholar and student alike for its examination of the Hellenistic and Hellenism. With its different methodological approaches, places, and periods examined, [it] could provide a rich and far-reaching foundation for examining and re-examining our notions of the Hellenistic West, perhaps in a graduate course. That would be a course I would want to take.' Barbara Tsakirgis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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