City and empire in the age of the successors : urbanization and social response in the making of the Hellenistic kingdoms /
In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors' contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Imperial geographies : city, settlement, and ideology in the formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms
- Urbanization and economic networks
- Civic cults between continuity and change
- Consensus, community, and discourses of power
- Conclusion.