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Author Cohen, Getzel M

Title The Hellenistic settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa / Getzel M. Cohen
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 477 pages) : maps
Series Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Hellenistic culture and society ; 46
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Hellenistic culture and society ; 46
Contents Preface -- The Scholarship and the Sources -- A Geographic Overview -- I NORTHERN SYRIA -- II CHALCIDICE -- III CYRRHESTICE AND COMMAGENE -- IV PHOENICIA -- V SOUTHERN SYRIA -- VI THE RED SEA BASIN AND INDIAN OCEAN -- VII EGYPT -- VIII ALEXANDREIA NEAR EGYPT -- IX CYRENAICA -- APPENDICES -- I FOUNDERS -- II SETTLEMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER IN SYRIA, PHOENICIA, AND EGYPT -- III GREEK AND MACEDONIAN TOPONYMS THAT REAPPEAR IN SYRIA AND PHOENICIA -- IV 8220;ALEXANDRIA AD AEGYPTUM8221; -- V REFOUNDATIONS AND NEW FOUNDATIONS -- VI FOUNDATIONS AT OR NEAR MAJOR RELIGIOUS CENTERS -- VII CIVIC INSTITUTIONS AND OFFICES -- VIII ETHNICS AND TOPONYMS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF ANCIENT PLACE NAMES -- MAPS
Summary This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Cohen's survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa from 323 to 28 B.C.E
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-472) and index
Notes English
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Subject Cities and towns, Ancient -- Syria
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Red Sea Region
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Africa, North
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Cities and towns, Ancient
Greek colonies
SUBJECT Syria -- History -- 333 B.C.-634 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131699
Africa, North -- History -- To 647. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001639
Red Sea Region -- History
Greece -- Colonies -- History
Subject North Africa
Red Sea Region
Syria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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