Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction / Paul J. Kosmin and Ian S. Moyer
  • I . THE BIG EVENTS: PATTERN AND CRISIS
  • 1. The Maccabean Model: Resistance or Adjustment? / Erich S. Gruen
  • 2. The 'Great Theban Revolt', 206-186 / Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse
  • I I . THE GROUNDS FOR RESISTANCE
  • 3. Memory and Resistance in the Seleucid World: The Case of Babylon / Johannes Haubold
  • 4. 'After Him a King Will Arise': Framing Resistance in Seleucid Babylonia / Kathryn Stevens
  • 5. Diverging Memories, Not Resistance Literature: The Maccabean Crisis in the Animal Apocalypse and 1 and 2 Maccabees / Sylvie Honigman
  • 6. Revolts, Resistance, and the Materiality of the Moral Order in Ptolemaic Egypt / Ian S. Moyer
  • III. THE EDGES OF RESISTANCE
  • 7. An Impossible Resistance? Anatolian Populations, Ethnicity, and Greek Powers in Asia Minor during the Second Century / Laurent Capdetrey
  • 8. 'Herakles is stronger, Seleucus': Local History and Local Resistance in Pontic Herakleia / Daniel Tober
  • 9. Central Asian Challenges to Seleucid Authority: Synchronism, Correlation, and Causation as Historiographical Devices in Justin's Epitome of Trogus / Rachel Mairs
  • Bibliography
  • Index.