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      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 Hellenistic Period, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

      52 From Alexander to Jesus, by Ory Amitay

      53 The Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan, by Frank L. Holt

      54 The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India, by Getzel M. Cohen

      55 Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon, by Emily Mackil

      Creating a Common Polity

      Religion, Economy, and Politics in the

      Making of the Greek Koinon

      Emily Mackil

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