The Persian War was one of the most significant events in ancient history. It halted Persia's
westward expansion, inspired the Golden Age of Greece, and propelled Athens to the …

In the third century BCE, the ancient kingdom of Macedon held dominion over mainland
Greece, but it was rapidly descending into chaos. After Alexander the Great's death, several …

In the Hellenistic period (c. 323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators,
and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens …

To work on the Hellenistic always means taking an initial position on Classical Athens and
its 'legacy'—if only by ignoring both, and even though the total mass of Hellenistic evidence …

The vast majority of modern scholars hold that very soon or even immediately after
Alexander's death Ptolemy became a separatist who wanted to secede the satrapy of Egypt …

This article offers understanding and reassessment of the parentage attributed to Demetrios
Poliorketes in the ithyphallic hymn delivered to him at Athens in 291/0 BCE. This parentage …

This paper challenges the widespread belief that the political ambitions of Seleukos,
Ptolemy and other Diadochs were limited as compared to those of Antigonos and Demetrios …

This thesis treats of the use and meaning of the Greek concept of eleutheria (freedom) and
the cognate term autonomia (autonomy) in the early Hellenistic Period (c. 337-262 BC) with …

The paper discusses textual and iconographic sources, both Greek and Egyptian,
representing the deceased and deified Arsinoe II on the side of the living king Ptolemy II …

As the title of my chapter suggests, the work of cataloguing and identifying Boeotian
inscriptions often takes the form of a quasi-excavation into both ancient and modern …