From the Book - First Harvard University Press edition.
How it all began: from Macedonia to the oecumene (356-323 BC)
The successors: adventurers and architects of kingdoms (323-275 BC)
'Old' Greece in the short third century: struggles for survival, freedom and hegemony (279-217 BC)
The Ptolemaic golden age (283-217 BC)
The city-state in a world of federations and empires
Entanglement: the coming of Rome (221-188 BC)
The Greek states become Roman provinces (188-129 BC)
Decline and fall of the Hellenistic kingdoms in Asia and Egypt (188-80 BC)
A battlefield of foreign ambitions (88-30 BC)
A Roman east: local histories and their global context (30 BC-AD 138)
Emperors, cities and provinces from Augustus to Hadrian (30 BC-AD 138)
Socio-economic conditions: from Greek cities to an 'ecumenical' network
Social and cultural trends: benefactors, confrères, ephebes, athletes, women and slaves
From civic worship to megatheism: religions in a cosmopolitan world
The Greeks and the oecumene.
