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Creating a Hellenistic World

Creating a Hellenistic World is the proceedings of a conference held at Edinburgh University in 2006 as part of a larger project to establish a platform for the study of the Hellenistic world at Edinburgh. The volume is the first in a series of books (The Hellenistic World; Classical Press of Wales), for which Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Andrew Erskine are the General Editors. The conference was the idea of Llewellyn-Jones who proposed a set of questions in which the post-Achaemenid world might be explored. Erskine and Stephanie Winder were conference co-organisers with Llewellyn-Jones. Erskine and Llewellyn-Jones edited the volume, singling out papers and inviting contributions from scholars in the field of Hellenistic studies specifically to focus on the opening century of the Hellenistic era and to question how different parts of the diverse world of the post-Alexander age promoted and consolidated ideas of art, philosophy, government. The Introduction to the volume draws closely on remarks made by Llewellyn-Jones in introducing the conference and pursues issues raised by them during the conference itself. The edited volume is an integrated whole in which the main conference question (‘What defines the early Hellenistic period?’) is given sharp focus through a variety of approaches. Llewellyn-Jones and Erskine commented on all draft papers. Llewellyn-Jones was responsible for ensuring the overall thematic unity of the work. His own chapter, ‘A Key to Berenike’s Lock? (pp. 247-269), is co-authored with Winder. Both authors produced analyses of all sources (Greek and Egyptian; literary and visual), and extensively discussed their research in the writing process. The result is a genuine joint effort, holistically worked. No one part of the chapter can be attributed to the sole work of one author. The chapter is submitted in the context of Llewellyn-Jones' research contribution to the volume as a whole.