This thesis examines the art of Babylonia, Iran and Bactria after the Macedonian conquest, from c.330 to c.100 BC, in light of current developments in archaeological theory of cultural interaction. In order to illustrate the character and scale of these interactions, the thesis presents a discussion of iconographic material ranging from architectural ornament and sculpture to minor arts. Chapters II-IV discuss the material from each site, highlighting regional characteristics and differences between media. Chapters V-VII use three cross-sections to examine cultural interaction visible in material used for different social functions (‘spheres’). The ‘sphere of gods’ discusses religious architectural ornament and iconography, and the implications for our interpretation of cult in Babylonia, Iran and Bactria in this period. The ‘sphere of kings’ considers ruler representation and the physical appearance of ‘royal space’ while the ‘sphere of citizens and subjects’ discusses material made and used by the wider populace. Macedonian rule and the influx of settlers to Babylonia, Iran and Bactria developed networks of exchange, transmission and transformation creating ‘visually multi-lingual’ societies. The adoption of new artistic influences did not replace all existing traditions or necessarily infringe ethnic identities. There was selective adoption and adaptation of iconography, styles and forms to suit the new patrons and contexts. This cultural co-existence included some combinations of features from different artistic traditions into individual compositions, emphasising how visual languages were not closed-off, rigidly defined or static. Patrons were not confined to using the visual language associated with their ethnicity or current location. There was flexibility of use and meaning, which may present a useful model in the study of other areas of cultural interaction in the Hellenistic period.

This Master thesis deals with the development, mainly the technological development of the Greek mosaics in the Hellenistic period. Mosaics of the late Classical period are also included in this work as the early Hellenistic mosaic pavements continued to use and improve the late Classical technique. With respect to the technological aspect it is important to describe the production process, sources of which also exist in the ancient literature. The working environment and the organization of the mosaicists or other craftsmen involved can be to some extent reconstructed based on the archaeological finds. The next part of the thesis is concerned with the architectural context, the function and the meaning of the Greek mosaics. Certain hierarchy of the mosaic importance and the meaning can be identified on the basis of their motifs, the technique of the performance and their location inside the building. Furthermore, it is examined, how spaces of private houses changed with mosaics from the late Classical to the late Hellenistic times. In closing there is basic information about the Hellenistic mosaic repertory presented. Keywords mosaics, Greek, Hellenism, Art, Hellenistic, development

Les campagnes militaires de Philippe II et d’Alexandre le Grand ont bouleversé les équilibres politiques et militaires du monde grec classique. En développant une pensée militaire fondée sur la coordination des armes et non sur le primat de l’infanterie, ils ont donné à la cavalerie une importance tactique qu’elle n’avait pas dans les armées civiques de la période classique. L’épopée d’Alexandre représente, à cet égard, une aventure collective de dizaines de milliers d’hommes et de chevaux. Elle initie une conception de la guerre dans laquelle les chevaux sont des acteurs incontournables, infléchissant la stratégie, la tactique et la logistique de campagne. Dès lors, la production, la formation et la remonte des chevaux de guerre constituent des enjeux primordiaux de la construction des royaumes hellénistiques, car les dynasties des successeurs d’Alexandre se sont constamment préoccupées d’entretenir de cavaleries puissantes.Dans cette aventure cavalière, les cités emboitent le pas aux royaumes hellénistiques avec les ressources dont elles disposent, réformant leurs cavaleries ou en constituant de nouvelles, souvent dans une perspective fédérale leur permettant de nourrir de plus grandes ambitions militaires. Cela implique de trouver des chevaux, mais aussi des hommes capables de les monter et de les entretenir. Le consensus social établi entre les autorités civiques et les élites cavalières – une « classe d’écuyers » loin d’être homogène – diffère fortement d’une cité à l’autre en fonction de la culture équestre locale, c’est-à-dire des usages, pratiques et représentations des hommes de cheval dans le cadre – politique, économique et social – de la communauté civique à laquelle ils appartiennent. Les cultures équestres régionales ont donc en partie déterminé la capacité des cités à développer leurs cavaleries, mais, en retour, les mutations politiques et militaires de l’époque hellénistique ont considérablement influencé la culture équestre des élites en en renouvelant les pratiques – du prestige de l’hippotrophia aux réalités de l’équitation militaire – et en l’associant plus fortement qu’avant aux destinées politiques de la cité, à ses valeurs et à son système de représentation. / The military campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great upset the political and military balance of the classical Greek world. By developing a military way of thinking based on the coordination of arms and not on the primacy of the infantry, they gave the cavalry unprecedented tactical importance compared to other civil armies in the classical period. Alexander the Great's epic is, in this respect, a collective adventure of tens of thousands of men and horses. It introduced a conception of war in which horses were key players, bending strategy, tactics and campaign logistics. From then on, the production, training and upbringing of war horses became primordial issues in the construction of the Hellenistic kingdoms, because Alexander's successors' dynasties were constantly concerned with maintaining a powerful cavalry.In this equestrian adventure, the cities followed in the Hellenistic kingdoms' footsteps with the resources available to them: they reformed the cavalry or created new units, often in a federal perspective allowing them to feed greater military ambitions. This involved finding horses, but also men to mount and care for them. The social consensus established between the civic authorities and the cavalier elites - a far from homogeneous "squire class" - which differed greatly from one city to another depending on the local equestrian culture, i.e. the uses, practices and representations of horsemen in the political, economic and social context of the civic community to which they belonged. Regional equestrian cultures thus partly determined the capacity of cities to develop their cavalry, but, in return, the political and military changes of the Hellenistic period considerably influenced the elite's equestrian culture by renewing its practices - from the prestige of hippotrophia to the realities of military riding - and associating it more strongly than before with the political destinies of the city, its values and its system of representation.

Parte significativa da historiografia sobre o Egito antigo ainda tem usado os termos gênero e mulheres como sinônimos. O estudo das cartas gregas e demóticas foi feito em grande parte com foco nas análises formais dos textos e na filologia. São raros os estudos de epistolografia que privilegiam o aspecto relacional e social das fontes. Se, por um lado, os autores interessados no gênero no Egito usam as cartas como um documento que pode dar acesso às mulheres, a historiografia sobre essas cartas parece negligenciar as mulheres e o gênero como temas relevantes. No período ptolomaico, as relações entre homens e mulheres foram constituídas por processos intrínsecos e específicos que operavam diferentes categorias de gênero simultaneamente, combinando uma multiplicidade de tradições e valores, muito além de nossas percepções do que é masculino e feminino, ou grego e egípcio. A proposta da dissertação é analisar a historiografia sobre gênero no Egito ptolomaico e como ela se apropriou de determinados grupos de papiros, em especial as cartas. A discussão sobre os estudos de gênero com base na epistolografia grega e demótica do Egito ptolomaico articula diferentes disciplinas que expõe os enquadramentos teóricos enviesados de leitura das cartas. / A significant part of the historiography on ancient Egypt has used the terms gender and women synonymously. The study of Greek and demotic letters focused mainly on formal textual analysis and philology, disregarding the understanding that letters are relational sources.. Studies of epistolography rarely emphasize the relational and social aspects of sources. If, on one hand, authors interested in gender in Egypt use letters as documents that can give access to the understanding about women in the period, the historiography of these letters appears to neglect women and gender issues as relevant. In the Ptolemaic period, relations between men and women were constituted by intrinsic and specific processes that operated different gender categories simultaneously, combining a multiplicity of traditions and values, far beyond our perceptions of what is masculine and feminine, or is Greek and Egyptian. The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the historiography of gender in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it has appropriated certain groups of papyri, especially the letters. The discussion about gender studies based on Greek and demotic epistolography of Ptolemaic Egypt articulates different disciplines which exposes the biased theoretical frameworks imposed to the interpretation of letters.

Esta tese investiga, basicamente, o ensaio Que philosopher cest apprendre a mourir, do filósofo francês Michel de Montaigne. Trata-se de um texto que é um bom exemplo da forma como o filósofo rejeita a tradição metafísica na qual o problema da morte sempre foi pensado (dos pensadores gregos aos teólogos medievais). Mostramos que a originalidade deste ensaio reside no fato de Montaigne nos aconselhar a seguir a natureza (a qual, em seu pensamento, se confunde com o costume), e, com isso, ele se distancia não só da dogmática cristã, mas também dos ensinamentos morais helenísticos. / This thesis investigates, basically, the essay Que philosopher cest apprendre a mourir, by the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. This is a text which is a good example of how the philosopher rejects the metaphysical tradition in which the problem of death has always been thought (from the Greek thinkers to Medieval theologians). We show that the originality of this essay lies in the fact of Montaigne in advising us to follow the nature (which, in his thoughts, it confuses with the usual), and thus, it gets away not only from the Christian Dogmatics, but also from the Hellenistic moral teachings.

Ce travail consiste en un commentaire ad locum, à caractère à la fois historique et historiographique, de la première moitié du livre XXXI de la Bibliothèque Historique de Diodore de Sicile, parvenu jusqu’à nous de façon fragmentaire. L’analyse recouvre 34 fragments, correspondant aux chapitres 1-17b de l’édition Loeb de F.R. Walton et issus du récit annalistique de la première olympiade successive à la bataille de Pydna (168/7-165/4 av. J.-C. = Ol. 153). Le choix du sujet se dessine dans le cadre d’un renouvellement général d’intérêt pour les deux dernières décades fragmentaires de l’œuvre diodoréenne, et pour les livres proprement ‘romains’ en particulier (XXIII-XL). Leur étude semble aujourd’hui centrale pour une meilleure appréciation de la personnalité de l’historien d’Agyrion, du fait de la proximité de l’époque de l’auteur aux événements relatés et de l’importance réservée aux deux cents dernières années d’histoire romaine dans l’économie globale de l’œuvre. La double perspective adoptée vise aussi bien à centrer la question de l’interprétation que l’historien sikéliote donne aux faits narrés qu’à envisager de manière novatrice les enjeux caractérisant la phase historique considérée, à la lumière des apports et des sollicitations de la recherche scientifique la plus récente. A côté de l’intérêt porté à l’écriture de Diodore – ici considérée en particulier du point de vue de son rapport avec la tradition polybienne –, une place privilégiée est ainsi accordée à la réflexion sur les causes et les procédés de l’expansion romaine en Orient, à un moment clé pour la redéfinition des équilibres de pouvoir entre l’Urbs et le monde gréco-hellénistique. / This work consists in an ad locum commentary, both historical and historiographical, on the first half part of the XXXI book of Diodorus Siculus’ Historical Library, that has reached us in fragments. This analysis is about the 34 fragments corresponding to the chapters 1-17b of F.R. Walton’s Loeb edition and to the remaining annalistic narration of the first Olympiad following the battle of Pydna (168/7-165/4BC = Ol. 153). The choice of the subject fits within a new general interest for the two last fragmentary decades of the Historical Library, and particularly for the so called ‘Roman’ books (XXIII-XL). A study of this section of Diodorus’ Bibliotheke seems nowadays essential for a better appraisal of the personality of the historian of Agyrion: this is because of the proximity of the author’s time to the events related and because of the great importance of the two last centuries of Roman history into the global economy of his work. The double perspective adopted aims to point out the historian’s interpretation of the facts narrated, but also to reconsider in an innovative way the problems characterizing the period analyzed, specially under the new light offered by the most recent contributions of the scientific research. Therefore, a privileged place is granted to the reflection on the causes and the procedures of the Roman expansion in the East, in a key-moment for the redefinition of the balance of power between the Urbs and the Greco-Hellenistic world, together with a particular attention to Diodorus’ writing, here considered in its relation with the Polybian tradition.

Diodoro de Sicília historiador que viveu no século I antes da época comum escreveu uma obra intitulada Biblioteca Histórica constituída de quarenta volumes dos quais restaram integrais apenas dos livros I ao V (fragmentos dos livros VI ao X), e dos livros XI ao XX (fragmentos dos livros XXI ao XL). O autor escreveu em sua monumental obra a história universal desde os primórdios (incluindo história egípcia, história dos povos bárbaros, história grega e romana) até à sua própria época (última data citada por Diodoro diz respeito à colonização de Tauromênion, empreendida no reinado de Otávio [XVI, VII, 1]). Entretanto, Diodoro nunca foi considerado, nem em sua própria época, nem em épocas posteriores, um historiador original: sua obra foi considerada uma cópia incessante de outros autores. O centro da controvérsia nos tempos modernos (a partir do século XIX) foi a Quellerforschung (pesquisa das fontes) que intentou buscar no texto diodoriano autores perdidos (que ele cita explicitamente em sua Biblioteca) da época helenística como se o mesmo apenas os tivesse copiado. Essa pesquisa teve por objetivo resgatar a originalidade da Biblioteca Histórica buscando conferir a seu autor a autoria de seus escritos. Longe de ser um mero copista, Diodoro é um historiador-educador que busca instruir seus leitores dando um caráter de utilidade no aprendizado de uma vida correta e justa. Pode-se dividir a Biblioteca em duas partes: a primeira (livros I ao V), de cunho etnográfico-geográfico, narra como os homens foram capazes de caminhar rumo à vida civilizada (ou não, no caso dos bárbaros). A recorrência dos termos parádoxa e thaumázein significando espanto, admiração e maravilhamento mostram como a humanidade foi capaz de superar as dificuldades de uma existência difícil e hostil tornando-se capaz de viver em sociedade. A segunda parte (livros XI ao XX) da Biblioteca, Diodoro dedica-se a narrar a história do mundo (especialmente a da Grécia) mostrando o exemplo dos grandes homens, sobretudo nos campos de batalha. Parádoxa deixa de significar maravilha ou espanto e, aliada à Fortuna (tých), ganha o sentido de contrário a toda expectativa. Assim, Diodoro mostra que a Divina Providência (theia pronoía) interfere nos assuntos humanos e cabe ao historiador mostrar como os grandes homens se comportaram diante dos sucessos / Diodorus Siculus a historian that lived in the first century before the Common Era wrote a work entitled Library of History constituted of forty volumes from which remained intact only the books I through V (fragments of the books VI through X), and from the books XI through XX (fragments of the books XXI through XL). The author wrote in this monumental work of universal history since the primordial times (including egyptian history, barbaric peoples history, greek and roman history) through his own (last date mentioned by Diodorus concerns the Tauromenion colonization that took place during the reign of Octavian [XVI, VII, 1]). However, Diodorus has never been considered, not even on his own time, nor in the eras after that, an original historian: His writings were considered an inexorable copy of others authors. The focus of this controversy in modern times (starting in the XIX century) was the Quelleforschung (sources research) that intended to search on the diodorian texts for lost authors (that he explicitly quotes in his Library) from the Hellenistic era as if they were solely copied. This research had for objective to reclaim the originality of the Library of History seeking to confer to its author the authorship of his writings. Far from being a mere copyist, Diodorus is a historian-educator that seeks to instruct his readers giving a utility character in the learning of a correct and just life. The Library can be divided in two parts: the first one (books I to V), of ethnographicgeographical connotation, narrates how humankind was able to walk towards civilization (or not, in the case of the barbarians). The recurrent terms parádoxa and thaumázein meaning amazement, admiration and marvelous-ment, show how humanity was capable of overcoming the difficulties of a hostile existence and becoming apt to live in society. The second part (books XI to XX) of the Library, Diodorus dedicates into narrating the history of the world (specially Greece), by setting the example of great men, especially in the battle field. Parádoxa does not signify marvelous or amazed and, allied to Fortune (tých), it gains the meaning of contrary to all expectations. Hence, Diodorus shows that the Divine Providence (theia pronoía) interfere in human business and its up to the historian demonstrate how the great men behaved facing the success and failures of existence. The moralizing character from the Library attributes to history an extremely important role, for it is up to it demonstrate who deserves to figurate in glory or abasement through the perennially that only history can confer. Diodorus behaves as a judge that points out those who, in their acts, have succeeded and made mistakes, not only narrating the facts, but incentivizing his reader to a virtuous behavior and to a moral aret.

O objetivo deste estudo é analisar como a caracterização das personagens Zenófila, Heliodora e Misco, presentes nos epigramas de Meleagro de Gadara (séc. I a.C) serviu de base em diversas instâncias para o restante dos poemas do autor, atuando, portanto, no processo criativo e editorial do poeta. Parte deste estudo também é a tradução integral dos epigramas de Meleagro em português. / The aim of this study is to analyze how the characterization of Zenophila, Heliodora and Myiscus, present in the epigrams of Meleager of Gadara (I b.C.), functioned as the bases, in various ways, for the rest of the authors poems, acting, therefore, in the creation and editorial process followed by the poet. A complete translation of Meleagers epigrams in Portuguese is also provided.

O objetivo deste estudo é analisar como a caracterização das personagens Zenófila, Heliodora e Misco, presentes nos epigramas de Meleagro de Gadara (séc. I a.C) serviu de base em diversas instâncias para o restante dos poemas do autor, atuando, portanto, no processo criativo e editorial do poeta. Parte deste estudo também é a tradução integral dos epigramas de Meleagro em português. / The aim of this study is to analyze how the characterization of Zenophila, Heliodora and Myiscus, present in the epigrams of Meleager of Gadara (I b.C.), functioned as the bases, in various ways, for the rest of the authors poems, acting, therefore, in the creation and editorial process followed by the poet. A complete translation of Meleagers epigrams in Portuguese is also provided.

This thesis argues for a common character of royal self-presentation in the early Hellenistic world, defined in this thesis as the period between the death of Alexander in 323 BC and the accession of Antigonos Gonatas in 276. In contrast to current models of interpretation which analyse it on a predominantly regional or biographical basis, this thesis supports the validity of approaching Hellenistic kingship as a broader phenomenon. Royal self-presentation is defined here as imagery developed by the kings, ideology articulated by them, and symbolic deeds enacted by them. This thesis engages a distinction between local and international perspectives and a wide interdisciplinary view of the surviving evidence in order to demonstrate the common character of early Hellenistic royal self-presentation. This common character is in turn unified by a dominant Greco-Macedonian emphasis: accordingly, it is termed ‘the image of the basileus’ in this thesis. This ‘image of the basileus’ is a composite construction based on six themes of royal self-presentation, each of which is analysed and discussed in a separate chapter; their total character is adduced fully in the final conclusion to this thesis. Chapter 1 covers heroic themes in royal self-presentation, which scholars have generally overlooked in reference to the early Hellenistic kings despite their commonality and significance. Chapter 2 covers the diadem, which became the symbol of Hellenistic kingship par excellence and as such is of pivotal importance to this study. Chapter 3 covers the concept of spear-won land and the foundation of eponymous cities, which can be understood together as part of an image of territorial domination. Chapter 4 covers representations of divine favour and divine will, a crucial basis of support for the early Hellenistic kings. Chapter 5 covers joint kingship and father-son rule, an innovation in the structuring of royal power and thus a vital focus for this thesis. Chapter 6, the final chapter of this thesis, covers common imagery in the funerals of the kings, which is important as a summation of their self-presentation.