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In Honor of beloved Virgil—
“O degli altri poeti onore e lume . . .”
—Dante, Inferno
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Classical Literature Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation, which was established by a major gift from Joan Palevsky.
The publisher also thanks the following for generous contributions to this book:
The Loeb Classical Library Foundation
The Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley
The Abigail Reynolds Hodgen Publication Fund in the Social Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Creating A Common Polity
HELLENISTIC CULTURE AND SOCIETY
General Editors: Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A.A. Long, and Andrew F. Stewart
1 Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green
2 Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander, edited by Amélie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White
3 The Question of “Eclecticism”: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy, edited by J.M. Dillon and A.A. Long
4 Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, by Richard A. Billows
5 A History of Macedonia, by R. Malcolm Errington, translated by Catherine Errington
6 Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy
7 The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora
8 Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, by Julia E. Annas
9 Hellenistic History and Culture, edited by Peter Green
10 The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius’s Argonautica, by James J. Clauss
11 Faces of Power: Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics, by Andrew Stewart
12 Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, edited by Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A.A. Long, and Andrew Stewart
13 From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, by Susan Sherwin-White and Amélie Kuhrt
14 Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos, 314–167 B.C., by Gary Reger
15 Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C., by Robert Kallet-Marx
16 Moral Vision in The Histories of Polybius, by Arthur M. Eckstein
17 The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, by Getzel M. Cohen
18 Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337–90 B.C., by Sheila L. Ager
19 Theocritus’s Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage, by Joan B. Burton
20 Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy
21 Pseudo-Hecataeus, “On the Jews”: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva
22 Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, by Kent J. Rigsby
23 The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
24 The Politics of Plunder: Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279–217 B.C., by Joseph B. Scholten
25 The Argonautika, by Apollonios Rhodios, translated, with introduction, commentary, and glossary, by Peter Green
26 Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography, edited by Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey, and Erich S. Gruen
27 Josephus’s Interpretation of the Bible, by Louis H. Feldman
28 Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context, by Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
29 Religion in Hellenistic Athens, by Jon D. Mikalson
30 Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, by Erich S. Gruen
31 The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties, by Shaye D. Cohen
32 Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria, by Frank L. Holt
33 Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 B.C.E.–117 C.E.), by John M.G. Barclay
34 From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context, edited by Nancy T. de Grummond and Brunilde S. Ridgway
35 Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition, by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
36 Stoic Studies, by A.A. Long
37 Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, by Susan A. Stephens
38 Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy
39 Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by Theocritus, translated with an introduction and commentary by Richard Hunter
40 The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity, by Kathy L. Gaca
41 Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories, by Craige B. Champion
42 Cleomedes’ Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens, with an introduction and commentary by Alan C. Bowen and Robert B. Todd
43 Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context, by Sara Raup Johnson
44 Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions, by Frank L. Holt
45 The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period, by Seán Hemingway
46 The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, by Getzel M. Cohen
47 Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, by Frank L. Holt
48 Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome, by Arthur M. Eckstein
49 Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, by Jean Bingen, edited and introduced by Roger S. Bagnall
50 Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers, edited by Tessa Rajak, Sarah Pearce, James Aitken, and Jennifer Dines
51 The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The
