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Informationen zum Autor Getzel M. Cohen is Professor of Classics and Director of the Tytus Visiting Scholars Program at the University of Cincinnati. He is also Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies. Among his other works! he is the author of The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe! the Islands and Asia Minor and The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria! the Red Sea Basin and North Africa (both UC Press). Klappentext Praise for the author's previous volumes on the Hellenistic settlements: "A major piece of scholarship. It will be constantly consulted and will take a place among the leading reference works available to the growing number of scholars and students now working on the Hellenistic age."- American Journal of Archaeology "An important work for professional classicists and historians interested in Hellenistic cities! city founding! and political history. Indeed! [it] will become the standard reference work on Hellenistic city foundations."- History "A monumental compendium. . . . [It] will become a standard reference work for the next generation of Hellenistic historians; it can also serve as a model for the distillation and presentation of a massive! scattered! and difficult body of evidence and scholarship on one of the most difficult! but surely most important! aspects of Hellenistic civilization."- Bryn Mawr Clasical Review Zusammenfassung Provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the Graeco-Macedonian settlements founded in the East. This book pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects, making a distinct contribution to ongoing questions and opening new avenues of inquiry. Inhaltsverzeichnis 97389869
