The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India
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In honor of beloved Virgil–
“O degli altri poeti onore e lume …”
–Dante, Inferno
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Classical Literature Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation, which was established by a major gift from Joan Palevsky.
The Hellenistic Settlements in the East
from Armenia and Mesopotamia
to Bactria and India
HELLENISTIC CULTURE AND SOCIETY
General Editors:
Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew F. Stewart
| I. | Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green | |
| II. | 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 | |
| III. | The Question of “Eclecticism”: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy, edited by J. M. Dillon and A. A. Long | |
| IV. | Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, by Richard A. Billows | |
| V. | A History of Macedonia, by R. Malcolm Errington, translated by Catherine Errington | |
| VI. | Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy | |
| VII. | The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora | |
| VIII. | Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, by Julia E. Annas | |
| IX. | Hellenistic History and Culture, edited by Peter Green | |
| X. | The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius’ Argonautica, by James J. Clauss | |
| XI. | Faces of Power: Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics, by Andrew Stewart | |
| XII. | Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, edited by Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew Stewart | |
| XIII. | From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, by Susan Sherwin-White and Amélie Kuhrt | |
| XIV. | Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos, 314–167 B.C., by Gary Reger | |
| XV. | Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C., by Robert Kallet-Marx | |
| XVI. | Moral Vision in The Histories of Polybius, by Arthur M. Eckstein | |
| XVII. | The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, by Getzel M. Cohen | |
| XVIII. | Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337–90 B.C., by Sheila L. Ager | |
| XIX. | Theocritus’s Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage, by Joan B. Burton | |
| XX. | Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy | |
| XXI. | Pseudo-Hecataeus, “On the Jews”: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva | |
| XXII. | Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, by Kent J. Rigsby | |
| XXIII. | The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé | |
| XXIV. | The Politics of Plunder: Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279–217 B.C., by Joseph B. Scholten | |
| XXV. | The Argonautika, by Apollonios Rhodios, translated, with introduction, commentary, and glossary, by Peter Green | |
| XXVI. | Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography, edited by Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey, and Erich S. Gruen | |
| XXVII. | Josephus’s Interpretation of the Bible, by Louis H. Feldman | |
| XXVIII. | Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context, by Kathryn J. Gutzwiller | |
| XXIX. | Religion in Hellenistic Athens, by Jon D. Mikalson | |
| XXX. | Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, by Erich S. Gruen | |
| XXXI. | The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties, by Shaye D. Cohen | |
| XXXII. | Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria, by Frank L. Holt | |
| XXXIII. | Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 B.C.E.–117 C.E.), by John M. G. Barclay | |
| XXXIV. | From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context, edited by Nancy T. de Grummond and Brunilde S. Ridgway | |
| XXXV. | Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition, by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes | |
| XXXVI. | Stoic Studies, by A. A. Long | |
| XXXVII. | Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, by Susan A. Stephens | |
| XXXVIII. | Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy | |
| XXXIX. | Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by Theocritus, translated with an introduction and commentary by Richard Hunter | |
| XL. | The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity, by Kathy L. Gaca | |
| XLI. | Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories, by Craige B. Champion | |
| XLII. | Cleomedes’ Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens, with an introduction and commentary by Alan C. Bowen and Robert B. Todd | |
| XLIII. | Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context, by Sara Raup Johnson | |
| XLIV. | Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions, by Frank L. Holt | |
| XLV. | The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period, by Seán Hemingway | |
| XLVI. | The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, by Getzel M. Cohen | |
| XLVII. | Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, by Frank L. Holt | |
| XLVIII. | Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome, by Arthur M. Eckstein | |
| XLIX. | Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, by Jean Bingen. Edited and introduced by Roger S. Bagnall | |
| L. | Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers, edited by Tessa Rajak, Sarah Pearce, James Aitken, and Jennifer Dines | |
| LI. | The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva | |
| LII. | From Alexander to Jesus, by Ory Amitay | |
| LIII. | Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan, by Frank L. Holt | |
| LIV. | The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India, by Getzel M. Cohen | |
| LV. | Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon, by Emily Mackil |
The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India
Getzel M. Cohen
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Cohen, Getzel M.
The Hellenistic settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India / Getzel M. Cohen.
p. cm. — (Hellenistic