Hellenistic History and Culture (Hellenistic Culture and Society) (Volume 9)

About this book

In a 1988 conference American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western Greco-Roman tradition and Nubians Bactrians and other subject peoples of the time are receiving attention in their own right not just as recipients of Greco-Roman culture. History like Herakleitos river never stands still. These essays share a collective sense of discovery and a sparking of new ideasthey are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.