This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference works in the field of Greek history to be completed in the past decade.
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"This is an important book which should become the standard reference work on Hellenistic colonies in Greece and Asia Minor."--Richard A. Billows, Columbia University
"Professor Cohen provides us with a comprehensive survey of over a half-century of archaeological activity, and an indispensable reference tool for those interested in Hellenistic political history and the urban history of antiquity. The scholarship is superior in every respect."--Stanley Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles
"Professor Cohen provides us with a comprehensive survey of over a half-century of archaeological activity, and an indispensable reference tool for those interested in Hellenistic political history and the urban history of antiquity. The scholarship is superior in every respect."--Stanley Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles
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"This is an important book which should become the standard reference work on Hellenistic colonies in Greece and Asia Minor." (Richard A. Billows, Columbia University)
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In 1927 Victor Tscherikower published Die hellenistischen Stadtegrundungen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theorodokoi list, extant coinage, cistophoric coinage, coinage dates, independent dynast, honorific inscription, colonizing activity, honorific decree, earliest coins, fragmentary inscription, epigraphic evidence, colonization program, numismatic evidence, coin types, military colony, inscription recording, founding settlements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Antigonos Monophthalmos, Demetrios Poliorketes, Alexandreia Troas, Die Grenzen, Alexander the Great, Common Road, Public Organization, Antigonos Gonatas, Antiochos Hierax, Louis Robert, Middle East, Black Sea, King Seleukos, Seleukos Nikator, Ravenna Geographer, Tauros Mountains, Coinage of Ionia, King Antiochos, New York, Tabula Peutingeriana, Apollo Lairbenos, Aus Lydien, King Eumenes, Mithridates Eupator New!
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theorodokoi list, extant coinage, cistophoric coinage, coinage dates, independent dynast, honorific inscription, colonizing activity, honorific decree, earliest coins, fragmentary inscription, epigraphic evidence, colonization program, numismatic evidence, coin types, military colony, inscription recording, founding settlements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Antigonos Monophthalmos, Demetrios Poliorketes, Alexandreia Troas, Die Grenzen, Alexander the Great, Common Road, Public Organization, Antigonos Gonatas, Antiochos Hierax, Louis Robert, Middle East, Black Sea, King Seleukos, Seleukos Nikator, Ravenna Geographer, Tauros Mountains, Coinage of Ionia, King Antiochos, New York, Tabula Peutingeriana, Apollo Lairbenos, Aus Lydien, King Eumenes, Mithridates Eupator New!
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- Cities of St. Paul: And Other Biblical Sites in Asia Minor by William M. Ramsay on 6 pages
- Greek and Roman Chronology by Alan E. Samuel on 4 pages
- House of Seleucus by Edwyn Robert Bevan on page 131, page 286, and page 314
- The Coinages of Demetrius Poliorcetes by Edward T. Newell on page 113, and Back Matter
- Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period by H. B. Welles on page 10, and Back Matter
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- Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by Mark A. Chancey on page 27, and Back Matter
- Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Paul Cartledge in Front Matter
- The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by R. Bracht Branham in Back Matter
- The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Apollonios Rhodios in Front Matter
- Troy between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power by Andrew Erskine in Back Matter
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