Table of Contents

Introduction; Public Feasts in the Hellenistic Greek City: Forms and Meanings; Society, Consanguinity and the Fertility of Women: The Community of Deities on the Great Frieze of the Pergamum Altar as a Paradigm of Cross-Cultural Ideas; Daimon and Tuche in the Hellenistic Religious Experience; Hellenistic Superstition: The Problems of Defining a Vice; Hellenistic Magic and Astrology; Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks: The Evidence from Astrology; A Professor and his Slave: Conventions and Values in the Life of Aesop; Family Values: The Uses of the Past; Grave Gifts, Women, and Conventional Values in Hellenistic Athens; Conventional Values in the Hellenistic World: Masculinity; Death on Delos: Conventions in an International Context; Index of Persons; Index of Modern Authors; Geographical Index; Index.

About the Author

Lise Hannestad is Senior Associate Professor at the Department for Classical Archaeology, University of Aarhus.